WHAT'S ACT UP?

FORGET ME NOT:


"'I was shocked when I came to Harvard to discover that no one remembered Act Up,'said Helen Molesworth, the show’s curator. 'The defining political movement of my generation was not known at all by people 15 years younger than myself, and that absence of knowledge seemed quite horrible to me'

........ Chris Bartlett, a former classics scholar who has set out to rescue the memories of those lives, specifically 4,600 gay Philadelphia men who perished of AIDS in the 1980s and ’90s. While the memorializing impulse is ancient, the method Mr. Bartlett came up with is as new as the latest app; he has created a social networking site for the dead."

 from The New York Times article, Lost to AIDS, but Still Friended.







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