"Living with AIDS in this country is like living through a war
   that's happening only for those people in the trenches.
   Every time a shell explodes you look around to discover
   that you've lost more of your friends. But nobody else notices,
   it isn't happening to them."

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         Speech delivered at the ACT UP Demonstration in Albany New York, May 9, 1988  
         and at the Department of Health and Human Services, Washington D.C. October 10, 1988

BOB RAFSKY READS   "I'M NOT DYING ANYMORE" 

    "This isn't a fucking show, we're actually dying!"

additional links: Queers Read This Published anonymously and originally passed out by activists marching with ACT UP at New York Gay Pride 1990 re-constructed pdf

DAVID WOJNAROWICZ READING    "FEVERS"

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   JOHN WEIR STORYTELLING

    "it was clear that I had finally reached him for once in my life
    because he looked at me like, this is my son, he must have had
    a reason to do this."

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see more   DAY OF DESPERATION

     "SNAP OUT OF IT"  from "Spontaneous Combustion"

     "...my favorite was 'taste perversion' "

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    "Remember that nothing has ever been given to our community.
    It has always been taken in our name by the courageous
    and the radical."

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  "BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY"

    A wealthy, well-connected hetero friend recently said to me,
    "I'm amazed that you guys haven't turned to terrorism--
    everybody's afraid of you anyway..."

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      "Tim Bailey wanted his body to serve as an indictment for the total
    denial of the worst epidemic in the history of the world as we know it."

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JAIME MANRIQUE READING

NEGOTIATING SEX IN AN AGE OF PANIC

  Documentation of Sex Panic and Interviews of Negotiating Sex

           from the MIX 1997 Film Festival       QUICKTIME MOVIE

   Through a stack of personal journals, the video reconstructs
   a biography of the South Dakota born and New York City enlightened
   artist James Wentzy. Tracing his days starting out from struggling
   artist to AIDS activist....      – original 17 minute version

There is a new full-length 73-minute version of "Books of James" currently screening at many Film Festivals.     see www.booksofjames.com

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 "PEER EDUCATION, NOT FEAR EDUCATION"   (27:30)

   The Religious Right is replacing reality-based approaches to AIDS education
   with Fear-based, "abstinence-only" curricula.

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