Re: AIDS, Race, and Class
Yoshie wrote:
AIDS activism such as that of GMHC, ACT UP, etc. has changed the lives of the richer half of white gay men for the better, but it doesn’t work as a solution for poorer men and women, especially poorer people of color, and statistics shows it[….]
It’s been a long time, but as I recall, ACT-UP did a splendid job of
making the transition from activism on behalf of relatively well-off
white men to not-at-all-well-off people of color, at least in NYC. Of
course, The System was stacked against the darker and poorer, but
there’s only so much that a group like ACT-UP could have done about
that. Maybe someone more familiar with ACT-UP’s history can fill in
the details, but this doesn’t sound like a fair criticism.
Doug