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Latinos ACT UP: Transnational AIDS Activism in the 1990s

WHEN THE AIDS COALITION TO UNLEASH Power (ACT UP) was founded in New York in 1987, it introduced a proactive stance into the United States' AIDS crisis but also united people at opposite ends of the political spectrum. In the years following the Stonewall riots, the philosophy that fueled the lesbian and gay movements social and cultural critique and linked it to the struggles of women, workers, and people of color, lost sway as many settled on the path to assimilation. By 1981, young, well-educated gay white men, poised to take their place among the elite, were ambushed by an unforeseen foe. Thus, when ACT UP was born, the political differences between lesbians and gay men had largely been ...

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