Marilyn McGregor ACT UP/Golden Gate Breast Cancer Committee Records
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Title: Marilyn McGregor ACT UP/Golden Gate Breast Cancer Committee Records
Dates: 1993-2000
Collection Number: GLC 195
Creator/Collector:
McGregor, Marilyn.
Extent: 6 cartons (6 cubic feet) + 1 mounted poster (oversized)
Repository:
San Francisco Public Library. James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center
San Francisco, California 94102
Abstract: These records consist of reports, correspondence, drug protocols, newspaper clippings, posters, and audiovisual materials
that document the work of the ACT UP/Golden Gate Breast Cancer committee.
Language of Material: English
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for publication is given on behalf of the San Francisco Public Library as the owner of the physical items.
Marilyn McGregor ACT UP/Golden Gate Breast Cancer Committee Records. San Francisco Public Library. James C. Hormel LGBTQIA
Center
Donated by Marilyn McGregor, September 2018.
Biography/Administrative History
By the 1990s the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) had successfully campaigned to obtain access to drug trials for
AIDS and HIV patients. In the mid-1990s, they formed a breast cancer committee which for 3 years taught advocates how to do
ACT UP-style activism on behalf of breast cancer patients.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains the records for the campaign to get compassionate access to Genentech's breast cancer drug Herceptin
while it was in clinical trials. From letter writing, to reading drug testing protocols, to creating oversized posters, these
records are a primer on the ACT UP model for health care and drug testing activism. The collection also includes material
from Breast Cancer Action, and the Herceptin NOW Oversight Committee. For related materials, see also the Breast Cancer and
Breast Cancer Committee files in the Survive AIDS--ACT UP/Golden Gate Records (GLC 76).
Breast--Cancer--Treatment.
Breast--Cancer--Political aspects--United States.
ACT UP/Golden Gate.
Genentech, Inc.