It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic

Title: It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic Author: Jack Lowery ISBN: 9781645036609 Publisher: Bold Type Books Published: 2024 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher History 1589345 Publisher Description: Shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Prize The story of art collective Gran Fury--which fought back during the AIDS crisis through direct action and community-made propaganda--offers lessons in love and grief. In the late 1980s, the AIDS pandemic was annihilating queer people, intravenous drug users, and communities of color in America, and disinformation about the disease ran rampant. Out of the activist group ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), an art collective that called itself Gran Fury formed to campaign against corporate greed, government inaction, stigma, and public indifference to the