AIDS activists -- Massachusetts -- Boston
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
ACT UP records
Unprocessed — Box 1: [Barcode: 39358015479477,TRF119719760]
Identifier: Z15-005
Dates:
ca. 1990-2013
ACT UP/Boston (David Stitt) collection
Collection
Identifier: M179
Overview
David Stitt was a member and volunteer with the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power Boston chapter (ACT UP/Boston). He was involved with a few of the organization's projects, most notably the production of Attitude! newsletter. Stitt also participated in the "rubber fairies" (a program to promote safer sex) and the IV League (a needle exchange program). ACT UP/Boston was founded in 1987 as a way to focus local efforts in support of the development of...
Dates:
1986-1994
G. Derrick Hodge papers
Collection
Identifier: M200
Overview
G. Derrick Hodge was a member of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power Boston (ACT UP/Boston) and Queer Nation/Boston in the early 1990's. Hodge served on ACT UP/Boston's discrimination, benefits, and finance working groups. ACT UP/Boston was founded in 1987 by activists Raymond Schmidt, Stephen Skuce, Donald Smith, and Paul Wychules to focus local efforts to speed up the development of AIDS treatments, educational programs, and prevention strategies. The membership was a diverse, nonpartisan...
Dates:
1987-1993