ACT UP
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AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) is an international direct action advocacy group working to impact the lives of people with AIDS (PWAs) and the AIDS pandemic to bring about legislation, medical research and treatment and policies to ultimately bring an end to the disease by mitigating loss of health and lives.
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See also
- Spencer Cox: member of ACT UP New York
- Sarah Schulman: member of ACT UP New York
- Lesbian Avengers
- Housing Works
- David B. Feinberg
- Didier Lestrade: ACT UP Paris co-founder
- Thierry Schaffauser: sex worker activist and writer who is a former member of ACT UP Paris
- Fed Up Queers: group founded through ACT UP
- Luke Montgomery: member of ACT UP Seattle
- J. Quinn Brisben
- ActUp/RI: the Rhode Island chapter
- Bash Back: group of "radical queers" influenced by ACT UP
- Queer Nation
- Kiyoshi Kuromiya: member of ACT UP Philadelphia.
- Chris Bartlett (activist): member of ACT UP Philadelphia.
- Larry Kramer
- How to Survive a Plague: Academy Award-nominated documentary on the history of ACT UP
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