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Peter Staley Talks The 'Heavy Dose' of Sex, Love, and Humor in ACT UP

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Peter Staley was working on Wall Street when he was handed a flyer for a "Massive AIDS Demonstration" taking place in front of The Trinity Church, just a block away from the trading floor. "AIDS is the biggest killer in New York City of young men and women," it read, listing demands that included the Food & Drug Administration expanding access to potentially life-saving drugs and for the U.S.

government to establish a "coordinated, comprehensive, and compassionate national policy on AIDS." Two hundred and fifty people showed up.

This was March 24, 1987 — the first demonstration carried out by ACT UP. Staley had received his own diagnosis two years prior and was desperate to learn anything he could, anything that might buy him more time.

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