Activists Invited to ACT UP LA Meeting
On October 11, 1987, about 200,000 people participated in the March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights. Protestors criticized the inadequate response of President Ronald Reagan’s administration to the AIDS crisis and called for comprehensive health care and protection from discrimination for people living with AIDS and HIV. In the following months, activists began to organize in their communities to fight for national action on AIDS and to push for change locally. This flyer advertised a meeting in Los Angeles a few weeks after the Washington, D.C. march. At that meeting, Los Angeles activists formed a chapter of ACT UP, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power. The Los Angeles-based grassroots group became one of more than 140 ACT UP chapters formed across the country to fight AIDS and discrimination against people with AIDS and HIV.
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