Monday, April 30, 2012
rachel maddow pays tribute to ACTUP on 25th anniversary for changing the world
The Aids Coalition To Unleash Power (ACTUP) changed the world 25 years ago and it is likely where the term "militant homosexuals" came from. Demanding the right to live is pretty radical I must say [/sarcasm] but in the 1980s when the President of the United States waits until over 20,000 citizens are dead before even publicly acknowledging the epidemic, what else can a dying people do but stand up for themselves while they still have breath. I applaud ACTUP and wish todays gay souls could have an ounce of the courage these folks had. While the right wing idolizes Ronald Reagan for doing what Obama is doing under an "R" classification, he was a failure of a human for letting so many people die before even simply uttering the word 'AIDS' publicly. The 80's were a dark time for America, where was its soul exactly? It was in ACTUP.
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