not to mention that many people (including folx in ACT UP NYC) were also critical of Larry Kramer’s GMHC for being too institutional and not doing the important work of calling out the medical industrial complex and all its capitalist shortcomings. instead GMHC was lining the pockets of pharmaceticual companies with profits soaked in the blood of folx dying with AIDS. and im not saying GMHC was a bad thing, but that it had its limitations, and many of those limitations i believe came from seeing the AIDS genocide from a more privileged point of view.

also, people should read “white nights and ascending shadows” if they want more good shit like this interview. its a well done oral history of the aids epidemic focused on the s.f. area.

Silence = Death was a mantra for us boys in the 80′s who were banging on the doors of phramacutical companies, and marching on Washington trying to get someone to help our sick friends.

I never knew the background behind it.
Thanks Professor.

“There’s something about privilege that’s blinding. I think that privilege and class are really the two issues in America – everything else falls around that. Where ever you fall on the spectrum of privilege, you’re blinded to what’s below you. There’s this one- way mirror that privilege creates. People tend to think that everyone is like them.”