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    ACTING UP FOR ALL

    May 21, 2019 5 minutes
    —MATHEW RODRIGUEZ

    FOR THOSE WHO DON’T KNOW much about ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), the storied AIDS activist organization founded in the ’80s, one of the go-to historical documents about the group is How to Survive a Plague, directed by David France. The documentary thrives on a cult of personality: Halfway through the film, five activists make their first present-day onscreen appearance after only being featured in archival footage. The idea behind the scene is supposed to be a sigh of relief: Don’t worry, they’re still alive.

    But the film has also been criticized for its focus on five white men who were part of one segment of the group (the Treatment & Data Committee) within one chapter (ACT UP New York, the first chapter in existence). In reality, the organization was a broad, diverse coalition

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