October marks LGBTQ History Month, and this week on At Liberty we are honoring the legacy of LGBTQ activism throughout the AIDS epidemic. Throughout the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, AIDS claimed the ...

ACT UP garnered much national attention due to its massive street protests and spectacle demonstrations, such as sneaking in and halting the opening of trading by chaining themselves to the New York ...

On April 25th, and in honor of its 25th anniversary, AIDS activist group ACT UP (The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), joined by organizations ranging from Occupy Wall Street to Visual AIDS to ...

These groups are invoking ACT UP’s legacy to push for further deregulation of the FDA. Here’s why they’re wrong. Ad Policy ACT UP protesters close the Federal Drug Administration building to demand ...

Beginning with an HIV diagnosis in 1990, Ivy Arce’s story spun into over three decades of activism, now unyielding in her demand for a cure. “For me, a cure is not a project,” she said. “Without ...

Members of ACT-UP/KC in the 1993 March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation in Washington, D.C. Kansas City Public Library What's Your KCQ is a collaboration between The ...

A workshop Saturday, January 7, will look back at the history of ACT UP and explore its lessons for organizing and activism in the Donald Trump era. The event, co-sponsored by Godless Perverts and the ...

The first-ever time anyone managed to interrupt the start of business on Wall Street was on September 14, 1989. Members of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Progress (ACT UP) used miniature foghorns to ...

In a show of solidarity with Palestine, ACT UP activists transformed the grassroots organization's iconic pink triangle into a watermelon slice. (artwork by and courtesy Shawn Escarciga) On January 23 ...

This immersive theater experiment enlists attendees to help recreate an AIDS activist meeting from 1989 as an exercise in empathy. By Laura Collins-Hughes On Monday evening at the Lesbian, Gay, ...