Sentences with phrase «other aids activists»

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«Throughout this and other gay - marriage campaigns, some queer activists have expressed their own discomfort about feeling obligated to fight for an institution about which they feel ambivalent while other essential battles — against HIV / AIDS, homelessness, domestic violence, and general discrimination — struggle for money and media attention,» wrote Deirdre Fulton in the Portland Phoenix.

A spokeswoman for George Galloway explains how the Bethnal Green and Bow MP was deported from Egypt after attempting to take 200 aid trucks into the blockaded Gaza Strip with other activists.

And in a third sign of growing disillusionment with Cuomo by Democrats and others on the political left, Working Families Party activists, furious over Cuomo's alliance with Senate Republicans, are threatening to back someone other than the governor in the November election, a move that would aid GOP gubernatorial contender Rob Astorino, sources said.

NEW YORK, NY (05/11/2012)(readMedia)-- Early this afternoon, a team of welfare recipients, unemployed New Yorkers looking for work, public housing residents, and people living with HIV / AIDS — members of the grassroots organizing groups Community Voices Heard (CVH) and Voices of Community Activists and Leaders (VOCAL - NY)-- led other New York residents in a series of actions in Lower Manhattan to highlight the inequality prevalent in our City today, and lift up the need to restore critical programs currently proposed to be cut in Mayor Bloomberg's Fiscal Year 2013 budget.

Others, however, said the measure is a Band - Aid solution that could thwart activists» attempts to legalize same - sex marriage in the state.

It's in San Francisco that we meet other fiery, passionate young people yearning to find some sense of community, including Roma Guy (Emily Skeggs as a youth and Mary - Louise Parker as an adult) who becomes a women's activist and is married to Diane (Fiona Dourif and Rachel Griffith), a nurse who stepped to the forefront to take care of AIDS patients when the epidemic hit.

We finished up with Schwarz discussing the dichotomy of 1970s Hollywood, on the one hand decadent and permissive, and on the other a place where gay men and women had to stay firmly in the closet; the impact of AIDS on the gay liberation movement; why Carr was an accidental activist; and, of course, the 1989 Oscars that changed everything for Carr, and then how Carr changed the way we approach Oscar season.

The inclusion of the aforementioned works by AIDS activists and others such as David Hammons's defiant African American Flag (1990), which flies in the museum's courtyard, attests to the curators» desire to examine the city's jagged edges.

The collection reflects the broad range of artists and collectives Hanhardt has worked with closely including: Nam June Paik, Charlotte Moorman, Peter Campus, Francesc Torres, Dan Graham, Juan Downey, Bill Viola, Chris Burden, Paul Sharits, Peter Campus, Hollis Frampton, Stan VanDerBeek, Max Neuhaus, William Anastasi, James Benning, Susan Pitt, Paper Tiger Television, Ed Emshwiller, Meredith Monk, Shigeko Kubota, Newsreel, Alphons Schilling, Warren Sonbert, Dieter Froese, Andy Warhol, AIDS Activist Videos, Marlon Riggs, Shu Lea Cheang, Tom Sachs, Beryl Korot, Buky Schwartz, Pepon Osorio, Robert Breer, Yvonne Rainer, Eleanor Antin, Adrian Piper, Joan Jonas, Bill Fontana, Roger Welch, St. Claire Bourne, Ken Jacobs, Gary Hill, Dara Birnbaum, Mary Lucier, Robert Watts, and many others.

NOT OVER includes essays by Cynthia Carr, Robert Atkins, Aldrin Valdez, and Nelson Santos, color reproductions of over 50 artworks and projects; an interview between artist members Jessica Whitbread and Frederick Weston, memorable quotes by artists, activist and writers, and a timeline of exhibitions, programs and other Visual AIDS milestones.

They will reflect on activist measures to organize sex - positive parties (Clit Club, Tattooed Love Child, Meat, and Pork, among others) for purposes of building nightlife community during the peak of the AIDS crisis in New York.

He has intricate geometric drawings by the late Channa Horwitz, open - ended scores for other mediums, and gives a room to Richard Hawkins and Catherine Opie to organize a show of the deliriously camp but seriously refined paintings of Tony Greene, who died in of AIDS in 1990, and another to curator Julie Ault, who features works and ephemera from her friends and collaborators, like the late Martin Wong and Matt Wolf, who recalls in an audio slide show how, as a teen in the 1990s, he typed «gay» and «art» into a search engine, and discovered David Wojnarowciz, another AIDS casualty, who was a redoubtable artist and activist.