The Life and Death of ACT UP/LA
Anti-Aids Activism in Los Angeles from the 1980s to the 2000s
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19922332 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Benita Roth (Binghamton University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Publication date | 2017-05-11 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Life and Death of ACT Up/la (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press is part of the University of Cambridge. (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/9781316226940 |
| OpenAlex | W2612748727 |
| Open Library | OL34714748M |
| ISBN | 9781316226940 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
The Life and Death of ACT UP/LA explores the history of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, Los Angeles, part of the militant anti-AIDS movement of the 1980s and 1990s. ACT UP/LA battled government, medical, and institutional neglect of the AIDS epidemic, engaging in multi-targeted protest in Los Angeles and nationally. The book shows how appealing the direct action anti-AIDS activism was for people across the United States; as well as arguing the need to understand how the politics of place affect organizing, and how the particular features of the Los Angeles cityscape shaped possibilities for activists. A feminist lens is used, seeing social inequalities as mutually reinforcing and interdependent, to examine the interaction of activists and the outcomes of their actions. Their struggle against AIDS and homophobia, and to have a voice in their healthcare, presaged the progressive, multi-issue, anti-corporate, confrontational organizing of the late twentieth century, and deserves to be part of that history
Art · Cityscape · Criminology · Direct action · Government (linguistics) · Interdependence · Militant · Neglect · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Social movement · Sociology · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Gender Studies · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society · Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome · ACT UP Los Angeles (Organization) · AIDS (Disease) · AIDS activists · Dissent and Disputes · Gays · History · Political activity · Sexual and Gender Minorities · Social movements · Social Science · united states
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| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1.67 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |