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Features
The Pope, the Penis and the Phone

Avram Finkelstein looks back on Gran Fury’s contribution to the 1990 Venice Biennale, The Pope and the Penis, and considers how the immediacy of social media might have impacted the AIDS activist collective

BY Avram Finkelstein |
Interviews
What ACT UP Can Teach Us About the Current Health Emergency

An interview with Sarah Schulman

BY Elisa R. Linn AND Sarah Schulman |
Opinion
Why We Painted Over David McDiarmid’s ‘I’m Too Sexy To Have AIDS’ Posters

When confronted with a deeply damaging past, it becomes necessary to take action to return us to the present

BY ACT UP London |
Opinion
Activists’s Subversion of ‘I’m Too Sexy To Have AIDS’ Slogan Does Queer History a Disservice

Why ACT UP activists spray-painting over artist David McDiarmid’s ‘Rainbow Aphorisms’ posters scored an own goal

BY Paul Clinton |
News
ACT UP Protest Whitney Museum’s Wojnarowicz Retrospective; Says ‘AIDS Is Not History’

In further news: Angela Gulbenkian sued over Kusama pumpkin; and Pussy Riot re-arrested immediately after release from Russian detention 

Opinion
Beats Per Minute: A Queer Film that Fights Back

Robin Campillo’s portrait of ACT UP Paris puts militancy before mourning

BY Evan Moffitt |
Frieze
Never Enough

AIDS activism now and then – 25 years of ACT UP and Gran Fury

BY Jennifer Kabat |
Reviews
ACT UP New York

Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts / Harvard Art Museum, Boston, USA

BY Ara H. Merjian |