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When We Rise: My Life in the Movement

Born in 1954, Cleve Jones was among the last generation of gay Americans who grew up wondering if there were others out there like himself. There were.

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Cleve Jones
2025
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LGBTQ History Month: The Early Days of America’s AIDS Crisis

From Reagan’s press secretary laughing about the AIDs crisis to the activist group ACT UP shutting down the FDA, we look back at the early days of the epidemic.

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Tim Fitzsimons
2018
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Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987–1993

In just six years, ACT UP, New York, a broad and unlikely coalition of activists from all races, genders, sexualities, and backgrounds, changed the world.

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Sarah Schulman
2021
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How to Survive a Plague: The Story of How Activists and Scientists Tamed AIDS

A definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS epidemic, here is the incredible story of the grassroots activists whose work turned HIV from a mostly fatal infection to a manageable disease.

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David France
2017
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How to Demand a Medical Breakthrough: Lessons from the AIDS Fight

AIDS activist group ACT UP organized numerous protests on Wall Street in the 1980s. The group’s tactics helped speed the process of finding an effective treatment for AIDS.

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Nurith Aizenman
2019
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Speaking of Psychology: The History of LGBTQ Psychology from Stonewall to Now, with Peter Hegarty, PhD

Over the past decades, the focus of LGBTQ activism has shifted and evolved, from the AIDS crisis in the 1980s to the fight for marriage equality to the focus on transgender rights today.

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American Psychological Association
2021
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How to Survive a Plague

The story of two coalitions -- ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group) -- whose activism and innovation turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable condition.

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2012
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