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Stonewall 50: A Guide Honoring the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots and LGBTQ History: NYPL Collections: AIDS/HIV Activism

Exhibition-related guide created to accompany "Love & Resistance: Stonewall 50" at The New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Rayner Special Collections Wing and Print Gallery, February 14 - July 13, 2019.

Images from the New York Public Library Digital Collections

RIOT [Stonewall '69 . . . AIDS Crisis '89] (Row of stickers) by Gran Fury

Act Up. [Protest rally in front of Municipal Building, by Douglass Rowell, 1989

Demand A Cure for The AIDS Crisis

Demand a cure for the AIDS crisis. Demand a national health care program and massive funding for medical research. Demonstration at the White House. May 13, 1991.

Silence = Death

"Silence = Death" ACT UP New York

ACT UP. [Sign "NYC AIDS HOUSING: Koch".] by Douglass Rowell, 1989

Front page of Act Up Reports No.4, June 1989;

ACT UP. [Activists taking the street.] by Douglass Rowell, 1989

ACT UP. [Protesters being arrested.] by Douglass Rowell, 1989

All People with AIDS Are Innocent (Banner at the Henry Street Settlement) by Gran Fury

AIDS/HIV Collections at the New York Public Library