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Larry Kramer at home in 2017.

Photograph: Joshua Bright

for The New York Times

Larry Kramer, AIDS Warrior, Takes on Another Plague

As his onetime foe and current friend,

Dr. Anthony Fauci, confronts the coronavirus,

the writer and activist watches history repeat itself.

NYT

March 28, 2020    5:00 a.m. ET

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/28/
nyregion/coronavirus-larry-kramer-aids.html

ACT UP’s first demonstration,

known as the Wall Street march,

took place on March 24, 1987.

Here, protesters being arrested

at nearby Trinity Church.

This photo ran in The New York Times

the following day.

Photograph:

John Sotomayor/The New York Times

12 People on Joining ACT UP:

‘I Went to That First Meeting and Never Left’

A dozen participants of the pioneering AIDS activist group,

including Larry Kramer and Peter Staley,

on the moment they decided to take action.

NYT

Published April 13, 2020

Updated April 17, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/
t-magazine/act-up-members.html

An AIDS demonstration

at Trinity Church in Manhattan in March 1987.

Photograph:

John Sotomayor/The New York Times

In This Pandemic, Personal Echoes of the AIDS Crisis

The author and activist Alexander Chee asks:

Are the parallels in the nature of the viruses,

or just an old story about America that had never changed?

NYT

June 18, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/18/
us/coronavirus-aids-epidemic-lessons.html

AIDS activists        USA

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/16/
1007361916/act-up-a-history-of-aids-hiv-activism

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/20/
books/review/let-the-record-show-sarah-schulman.html

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/13/
t-magazine/act-up-aids.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/
t-magazine/act-up-members.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/28/
nyregion/coronavirus-larry-kramer-aids.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/07/
magazine/the-rage-and-tenderness-of-david-wojnarowiczs-art.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/21/
nyregion/spencer-cox-aids-activist-dies-at-44.html

AIDS activists >

AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power — better known as ACT UP        USA

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/16/
1007361916/act-up-a-history-of-aids-hiv-activism

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/20/
books/review/let-the-record-show-sarah-schulman.html

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/13/
t-magazine/act-up-aids.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/
t-magazine/act-up-members.html

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/02/09/
689924838/how-to-demand-a-medical-breakthrough-lessons-from-the-aids-fight

http://www.npr.org/2017/04/17/
522726303/act-up-at-30-reinvigorated-for-trump-fight

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