November 25, 1988: Trump Tower Thanksgiving Action - ACT UP protests a lack of housing for PWA's while city gives tax breaks to wealthy developers. Numerous affinity group actions and arrests are made.
October 31, 1989: Housing Committee passes out candy, condoms and literature about AIDS and homelessness in front of Trump Tower.
"The majority of people dying of AIDS were people of color": AIDS Activism & Rising Inequality By Tamar W. Carroll:
The Majority Action Committee, so named “because the majority of people dying of AIDS were people of color,” addressed the ways in which racial and economic inequalities shaped the epidemic. The committee was formed in late 1987 to represent the “Black, Hispanic, Indian, Asian, and other minority communities.
Members of the Majority Action Committee, including Chou and Keith Cylar, along with white allies Charles King, Eric Sawyer, and Gedalia Braverman, formed a Housing Committee to press the city to increase the supply of affordable housing for PWAs and coordinated with other advocates for the homeless to stage a series of actions. On Thanksgiving Day 1988 the ACT UP Housing Committee led a demonstration in front of the $200 million Trump Tower.
Trump received the first-ever tax abatement for a commercial developer for his Grand Hyatt Hotel Project, near Grand Central Station.
Recognizing Trump as a key symbol of the privatization of New York that contributed to the rapid increase in economic inequality in the 1980s, ACT UP continued to target him.
http://www.gothamcenter.org/blog/the-majority-of-people-dying-of-aids-were-people-of-color-aids-activism-rising-inequality
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