Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993, the new book by historian Sarah Schulman, explores just that.
Drawing from 188 interviews with surviving ACT UP members, Let the Record Show is an utterly crucial guidebook for effective activism.You can listen to Schulman speak about the history of ACT UP on The Advocate's LGBTQ&A podcast (available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify) and read an excerpt below. Jeffrey Masters: In the book, I was struck by how massive and complex of an organization ACT UP was.
Is it a common misunderstanding that the group was just a small group of people?Sarah Schulman: The whole history of AIDS and AIDS activism has been narrowed and whitewashed down to a handful of individuals.