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Related: About this forumHappy Birthday ACT-UP!
If the Gay community ever need a group like you it's now! You helped save so many lives. You may be gone, but not forgotten.
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Happy Birthday ACT-UP! (Original Post)
William769
Mar 2012
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mitchtv
(17,718 posts)1. K&R
yup
Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)2. Act-up NYC still meets at the NYC LGBT Center on 13th street.
Its place of birth, actually.
http://www.actupny.org/
William769
(55,147 posts)3. NYC is lucky.
Our chapter has been defunct for years (like so many others).
w8liftinglady
(23,278 posts)4. My psychiatrist was VERY active in ACT-UP
he said the same thing... we REALLY need it in Dallas again.
beyurslf
(6,755 posts)5. I wonder how many young people in music theater today know the line
"ACT-UP! Fight AIDS" from RENT and think it is "Act up, fight AIDS!"?