United in Anger
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- Опубліковано 18 вер 2024
- United in Anger: A History of ACT UP is an inspiring documentary about the birth and life of the AIDS activist movement from the perspective of the people in the trenches fighting the epidemic. Utilizing oral histories of members of ACT UP, as well as rare archival footage, the film depicts the efforts of ACT UP as it battles corporate greed, social indifference, and government neglect. www.unitedinang...
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Dear young LGBTQ+ community: PLEASE learn our history, and please learn who these heroes are. And understand you are ALL standing on the shoulders of GIANTS. And be thankful you are not living through your 20's and 30's watching all your friends and loved ones die!
In brightest day, in blackest night,
No evil shall escape my sight!
Let those who worship evil's might
Beware my power, Green Lantern's light!
@@prashanthrajan5293 In brightest day, in blackest night,
No evil shall escape my sight!
Let those who worship evil's might
Beware my power, Green Lantern's light!
Paul, I lived through this horror. Every day, there was a new death... another loved one gone. When the smoked cleared, over 90% of my friends were dead.
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*_These persons are so, so, so brave!. They are superheroes_*.
Yep. In a wasteful time on all these DC and Marvel characters, THEY were and ARE the REAL heroes.
How? Bath houses? Multiple partners every night? IV drug users? 1,000s of gays refused to change there lifestyles despite the evidence. The only innocents in it all where those infected by blood transfusions.
Perhaps after Covid, more people can understand how MUCH courage it took. No words really fits to describe it...Heroes...so efficient despite the despise all around them. Incredible example of humanity. R.E.S.P.E.C.T.
Except we're not "after covid". Covid isn't over. We're just getting told to accept the 150K to 250K deaths of vulnerable people now as an acceptable loss. And to accept the slow trot toward drugs to help people afflicted with long covid. Just like people were supposed to not care about AIDS so long as it wasn't "our kind of people" being affected.
There's nothing new under the sun. Corporate greed (which prioritized getting the economy back to normal over the long-term health and lives of citizens), and public apathy (which encourages people to unmask and to put their own comfort first) is behind the ongoing covid pandemic just as much as it fueled the AIDS epidemic.
"Covid is over" is a convenient cultural lie that doesn't measure up to scientific evidence... And immunocompromised people denied access to safe healthcare or people whose lives have been wrecked by long-covid can't get even out and march in the streets screaming "we're dying!" and "they're killing us!"
we need this on Netflix
why, its better to have it for free on youtube than behind a pay wall
Claro que no!
I shed tears throughout this whole documentary. I couldn't stop thinking that most of these people died through AIDS. I can't imagine the horror that young gay men had to go through. An entire young generation lost to AIDS and the negligence of the government. Awful, awful times.
The govt was absolutely negligent,however a huge percentage of the gay community was highly irresponsible also.Once a hiv test was available,that percentage just would not get tested due to the fear that receiving a positive status was like being given a death sentence.The problem with this thinking was for anyone who was positive that continued the same behavior would ultimately wind up infecting anyone who was negative. You'll never be able to make me believe that every single gay man at that time was positive and that contributing to your community by learning your status and not infecting others if you were indeed positive, wouldn't have helped greatly reduce the spread of that horrible virus.So yes the govt was part of the problem,but your community was too.
Did you delete my comment?!!
I can't imagine the emotional horror it must have been to be exactly like me, but 30 years ago. I think the best we can do to honour these heroes is live the best lives we can and continue to fight for our right to do so. Essential documentary, especially for young LGBT+ people and healthcare professionals.
Emotional horror?? That the 🌈 people inflicted on themselves.
People having casual sex with no discretion or protection. Oh well......🤷♀️
And also to fight for marginalized disabled people. Like people with long-covid which is now being ignored and undiagnosed as much as AIDS was. With a slooooooow approach to getting life-changing drugs to prevent debilitating illness. Some lessons we seem slow to learn.
Honour these heroes by fighting for the others who still need defending.
I love every single person in this video, still here or departed. You inspire me more than you will ever know.
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Thank you for posting this for free. I am a social services provider and the unhoused LGBTQIA2S+ youth I serve will benefit from the story told in this film.
I don't think this is about "LGBTQIA2S" whatever all that means. It's about regular gay man. Gay woman. All this nonbinary, 2 spirits sht. it doesn't even make sense and it makes us all look awful
We truly do stand on the shoulders of so many giants.
I'm so grateful that these people fought for our right to have access to better and faster treatment for HIV/Aids. I'm HIV+ and I wish all those who died back then could be alive to see how much we evolved in technology (PEP, PrEP, i=i) and rights not just in USA but also in other countries around the globe. I also hope the Covid19 pandemic don't become the new Aids epidemic in terms of exclusion.
Stay healthy,keep to your daily tablet regime and remember 1 million ppl a year still die of AIDS related illnesses. 💚
Thank you for uploading this. I have arrived at this documentary through a curious route. A few months ago, I had the privilege of attending a talk by a former ACT UP activist now based in the UK, Dr. Monica Pearl, but did not end up watching it then.
A few days ago, I watched Bohemian Rhapsody and rediscovered a love for Queen and Freddie Mercury. Watching their last videos in which Mercury looks completely emaciated and in pain made me look up the AIDS pandemic again, and I remembered this documentary. And I'm so glad I did.
It captures the story so well. Their bravery is so inspiring, and their pain in losing their friends so heartbreaking. I wish we all had their courage so we might face up to the horrendous things that are still happening in our world.
I highly recommend We Were Here as a companion piece to this film.
Thanks to Prof. Shulman and the other creators of this film and the ACT UP oral history project.
I am an activist for contested illnesses such as ME"CFS" and Lyme Disease. There are so many parallels to the federal government's denial of and misinformation re AIDS, it's almost uncanny (though there are some notable differences). As activists we look to AIDS history and ACT UP for vital inspiration and lessons. Histories like this help tremendously!
Many people believe they have Lyme because they feel tired and sad though they test negative. Please don't compare it to this murderous disease. It's NOT the same.
Absolutely!!!
AIDS wouldn't have reached pandemic status if not for the total negligence by the government + media in the '80s. It could've been largely curtailed with safe sex education, needle exchange programs & blood donor screening, all of which the gov't health agencies refused as long as they could. The only practical info was put out by the gay community, which was a valiant effort but came too late for many.
Genocide, without question. Genocide by ignorance.
@@joshuaacosta5671 Absolutely, at least in the very beginning (1979-1981). But there were some hardheaded gays who continued going to the bathhouses long into the '80s when the risk was known. Men who refused to wear condoms because it infringed on their "sexual liberation". This is no exaggeration. I know it's a complex issue because LGBT people were just getting their rights when AIDS hit, but some people definitely contributed to the problem by putting sex above their very lives (and those of others). Gaetan Dugas comes to mind, but there were many others. Promiscuous anal sex is the highest risk activity aside from needle sharing, which is why promiscuous gay men were the very FIRST to show up sick in American hospitals, followed shortly by IV drug addicts.
That said, there's plenty of blame to go around. The Reagan gov't, Ed Koch, the Red Cross, drug warriors, egotistical scientists & the media all played their role in allowing AIDS to spread. And unsafe heterosexuals don't get a pass either; the only difference is most heteros didn't have an equivalent to a bathhouse scene where they could have 1000 partners or more in a year. Even the most sexually liberated woman generally isn't into that, lol.
Now, we're going through this all over again with covid. We never learn.
Maybe if the dirty pervs hadn’t had multiple dirty dicks shoved up their asses every night they wouldn’t have caused aids. Maybe if they’d closed the bathhouses and used protection so many wouldn’t have died. Maybe if the pervs had stopped donating blood INNOCENT people wouldn’t have died! Hemophiliacs, transfusion patients, babies died because these fucking perverts couldn’t stand the thought of not having multiple other perverts in their assholes. Nasty, dirty, disgusting pervs.
the media and governments weren't the ones spreading it or still doing what they were doing if when told to stop because that's how you spread it. men were still going to bath houses and bu++ering approx. 20-30 guys a week..!
Thank you for this wonderful documentary that highlights the courage and intelligence of ACT UP activists, so many of whom died prematurely due to the neglect of the government, the medical establishment, and the pharmaceutical industry, among others. I vividly remember the words of Daniel Sotomayor at the funeral of our friend Ralph. They were something like, "Some day this will be a treatable disease and those with HIV will live long and fruitful lives." I am so sorry that neither he nor Ralph were among them.
Ashes at the white house is what gut punched me. I saw it on the news back then. I was a sixteen year old gay boy, not out, seeing what I believed would be my future, in a plastic bag. When I turned 18 in ‘94, I got involved in activism in college. Pre-96 was just a scary time. ‘94/‘95 people were simply losing hope, fighting like hell, but losing hope on the inside. Most of the gay clubs had college night, for 18 and up, so I very quickly began meeting men who were losing their fight, and many more who were newly infected and just starting theirs. Being a twink I guess helped me too, we were quite popular LOL. University LGBT groups became our families. And like all families we lost some. Watching my heroes on tv in the early 90s, and then getting to join them in ‘94 is an experience I don’t think i’d ever change. And then 1996 happened. Men I knew suddenly became boys again. I think being there before ‘96, and fully understanding, and experiencing the despair, the anger, the energy, made 1996 all the more special. Thank you for this video. It should be required viewing on college campuses.
Thumbs up if Pose brought you here.
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Who / what is Pose
@@joespitler3929 the most important television programme of the last ten years
20 minutes in and I'm in tears ❤
I'm gay and I'm grateful for those who went before us ....
Props to ACT UP. they got themselves organized and forced change.
I heard that Larry Kramer just passed away. I hadn't known his story. I'm here to learn.
His story is extensive and fascinating and encouraging.
Watch the movie The Normal Heart.
I started working as a RN in Jacobi Hospital, Bronx, May/June 1982. AIDS was NOT diagnosed yet. They had a patient in reverse isolation (protection for the patient). His T cells were very low. Little was known. Then it was known that this was AIDS & little could be done to prevent people from dying. SOME patients who were infected became angry; spitted & bit nurses & staff. It was NOT the nursing staff that gave them AIDS. I do have a friend, now living in FL, who has lived with HIV since the mid 1980s. My ex-BF passed from AIDS 1990/91. We broke up 1979. He would not give up heroin.
Please tell me you are no longer a nurse because you don't seem to understand basic concepts such as empathy or addiction.
@sarahmiller4734 how judgemental from saint Sarah.
I was 15 and I was present
Who's here watching during Covid 2020?
14 minutes in and i’m already crying
I love this film. You should also watch How To Survive A Plague.
This is important history for many reasons - one of them being that citizens of the world often are abused and neglected, partly because our world predominantly is run by multinational corporations.
Watching this knowing the next health crisis that is being blamed on gay people is terrifying but so important
Great film Thank you important film Thank you
there’s probably so many people in this documentary who are dead :(
I was thinking this throughout the whole documentary. Every time I see a name pops up for example with (1955 - 1991) I cry. An entire young generation lost. I can't imagine the horror knowing you death is inevitable.
so sad. all of whom were very young too, most being in their mid 20s- early 30s.
incredible documentary and like when you see documentaries on Stonewall or a film like Milk showing how the LGBT movement and their allies defeated the Proposition that LGBT teachers should hide in the closet and anyone who knows of their orientation would be fired, and you just see footage of these protests and their direct action its just sooo fucking inspiring and its a history which shouldn't be forgotten. well done to the movement and keep the fight for justice alive and remember building SOLIDARITY!
I had to watch this for a college assignment, but honestly, I'm happy I watched it. It was informative and I cant say I was ever too bored.
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Peter lives! (maybe here are some others who watched the Donahue talk show here on youtube...)
In 2021 he released a book "Never Silent".
Such a horrible, horrible time.
yes. it took so much of our mental and physical energy to make this all happen by working togeth. all the while try not to let our pain interrupt our needed work to end the crisis
Diane, truthfully, to quote Charles Dickens, "it was the best of times, it was the worst of times."
The music, the clothes, the clubs, the friendships, and the freedom of expression were phenomenal. The 80s were glorious times. Then... AIDS walked in. It didn't stop the party, but it killed a lot of the guests.
Big respect for these braves !
For those who'd like to watch how Act Up came about, watch the movie The Normal Heart and for the early history of hiv,in relation to a test becoming available,the causes being discovered,etc,watch And The Band Played On.
Quite happy to see men supporting women's causes in this vid! Wish it was still this way today. We need to bring back this type of organized non-violent protest. Now everyone is fractured into groups based on race, gender, orientation, political affiliation, religion, etc. That's not how you get things done.
lies
So eerily familiar to what the government is doing now about the COVID pandemic.
Who else is here after watching POSE?
Me!
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Respect and love.
Gosh what a crazy situation
We need spanish subtitles
The UK experience. Check out the non-fiction book, God's Other Children: A London Memoir.
bug chasing and gift giving IS NOT OK! Having this virus is a fucking nightmare. Be warned. Live a long life, love safely.
Heroes!
Excellent video.
Amazing footage
Pose was fun. Let's listen to the Plague Mass by Diamanda Galas again.
37:23 Keith Haring
I have my dad's Silence =Death shirth of Keith's. I lost my dad to AIDS in 99 sadly.
1:04:45 is there a way to recover this songs? cant find them
Anyone else here from Sarah Schulman’s new book?
That same room is where I played many dances to raise money for the Fight.
I’m a Jew and holy ffff 1:40 and I’m in shock, cos there were a large amount of Americans talking about AIDS victims like Nazi’s talked about us, and how they treated Jews in the 1930’s. ‘Quarantined, have to wear something that identifies them as AIDS patients and tattoos that do the same’- % of people wanted this, even after knowing what happened in Nazi Germany. I am disgusted. Larry Kramer was right with his comparisons.
Subtitles in Portuguese, please! (2023)
The NYC public hospitals are worse than ever now [in 2024].
Does anyone know who is speaking at 2:55?
Kenny Leon - pretty sure it is David Robinson
27:30
Who is speaking at 56:13?
Vito Russo
Thank you so much!
david wojnarowicz at 41.00
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Hmmmm your tactics are similar to Tac here in SA. Who is behind this?
I know Jonathan Mann promoted using Human Rights as a tactic for who? CDC
Matthew 12:42
bruh
And because of the med's some young people don't care sad.
They had absolutely no right to protest inside that Catholic church.. period!! ACT UP would have gotten a much bigger response if they would have done that in front of the White House!! Or in front of the Congress building,but they didn't!!
Nah they had every right to protest at that church.
The priest gives misinformation to the congregation
Oh no, actions have consequences....who is to be blamed?
Governments that did nothing out of homophobia!
@@deadraccoon5210 ah yeah, it's the government responsible for my behaviour, i forgot....
@@Polones12 the government is responsible for fighting a pandemic. For providing Health care, information, and research.
They did nothing for a loooong time. When the first cases in the US appeared, tens of thousands ALREADY WERE INFECTED. The incubation period is up to TEN YEARS! (and first NO ONE knew what this was and HOW it spread).
So, stop being homophobic and learn about the pandemic.
What the fuck are you talking about
@@Polones12 critical thinking is essential
Nobody thought to mask up, crazy
aids was spread through direct bodily fluid contact (blood to blood, semen to blood) not the air.
This doesnt take courage to come out to say your gay,it takes courage to storm the beaches of normandy!