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The Life and Death of ACT UP/LA - Anti-AIDS Activism in Los Angeles from the 1980s to the 2000s (Hardcover)
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The Life and Death of ACT UP/LA - Anti-AIDS Activism in Los Angeles from the 1980s to the 2000s (Hardcover)
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The Life and Death of ACT UP/LA explores the history of the AIDS
Coalition to Unleash Power, Los Angeles, part of the militant
anti-AIDS movement of the 1980s and 1990s. ACT UP/LA battled
government, medical, and institutional neglect of the AIDS
epidemic, engaging in multi-targeted protest in Los Angeles and
nationally. The book shows how appealing the direct action
anti-AIDS activism was for people across the United States; as well
as arguing the need to understand how the politics of place affect
organizing, and how the particular features of the Los Angeles
cityscape shaped possibilities for activists. A feminist lens is
used, seeing social inequalities as mutually reinforcing and
interdependent, to examine the interaction of activists and the
outcomes of their actions. Their struggle against AIDS and
homophobia, and to have a voice in their healthcare, presaged the
progressive, multi-issue, anti-corporate, confrontational
organizing of the late twentieth century, and deserves to be part
of that history.
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