The collection contains minutes, correspondence, clippings files, and subject files produced by the Golden Gate chapter of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (AUGG). Some material is from ACT UP San Francisco (AUSF). The collection also contains banners, posters, buttons and T-shirts for ACT UP actions and from different ACT UP chapters.

AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) is an international direct action advocacy group working to impact the lives of people with AIDS (PWAs) and the AIDS pandemic to bring about legislation, medical research, treatment, and policies to ultimately bring an end to the disease by mitigating loss of health and lives. ACT UP was formed in March 1987 at the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center in New York. In 1990 the San Francisco chapter split into two groups ACT UP/San Francisco and ACT UP/Golden Gate. In 1994, ACT UP/SF began rejecting the scientific consensus regarding the cause of AIDS and the connection to HIV. In 2000 ACT UP/Golden Gate changed its name to Survive AIDS! to help differentiate it from ACT UP/San Francisco.

22 cubic feet, 2 oversized boxes, 12 oversized folders, 2 tubes

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