Hr 1 of Out - FM's fundraising specaial featuring an interview with Sarah Schulman, author of this brilliant, 700+
Tune into Bob Lederer's compelling extended interview with his former ACT UP colleague, acclaimed author and co - founder of the Lesbian Avengers, Sarah Schulman. The publisher, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, summarizes the book like this: "Twenty years in the making, Sarah Schulman's Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP/New York 1987
The political importance of this book is its contrast with the skewed mainstream book and movie accounts of ACT UP’s history, which elevate a few heroes, overwhelmingly privileged white gay men, and invisibilize the broader movement’s particip - extending drugs for HIV and AIDS. Sarah’s book is a dramatic, long
This program is also a fundraiser for non - commercial, listener
Synopsis: Hour 1 of Out-FM's Special, "A Political History of ACT UP/NY (Sarah Schulman)
Guests:
Author of "A Political History of ACT UP/NY (Sarah Schulman) -