![]() ![]() Women and people of color played central roles in the organization. She insists that people living with AIDS were more than just “victims,” and that ACT UP, composed of thousands of men and women, did not have a single leader. ![]() Schulman takes issue with and effectively debunks several narratives associated with the crisis that have found their way into mainstream popular culture, including the trope of the “helpless AIDS victim” and the prominence of gay white men in depictions of activism. By incorporating the authentic and unfiltered voices of the activists, she captures the anger, heartbreak, and desperation of the group composed of PWAs and their allies like Schulman, who fought against the indifference of wider society. ACT UP used aggressive and controversial tactics born out of anger, desperation, death, dying, and suffering of thousands of men and women from different backgrounds. In the tome, she weaves personal experience and large cuts of interviews that are now in ACT UP’s Oral History Project, which she and her colleague Jim Hubbard conducted from 2001 to 2018. The book is both a labor of love and the product of thousands of hours of work: nearly 200 interviews, and extensive archival research. ![]() Let the Record Show: A Political History of Act Up New York, 1987-1993 provides an insider’s view of the crisis. ![]()
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