The New York Public Library hosts events online, in person, and/or outdoors. If you encounter any issues, please join us on NYPL's YouTube channel. The program will be streamed live on this page. Researchers can access the organization's administrative files, minutes, correspondence, records of demonstrations, financial documents, chapter and committee records, subject files, conference notes and programs, published and near-print materials, ephemera, fliers and handbills, photographs, artifacts, posters and placards documenting the organization's efforts. The New York Public Library is home to the records of ACT UP New York, documenting its existence from its founding in 1987 through 1995. Sarah Schulman discusses her new book, which was twenty years in the making, with writer and philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah. Let the Record Show charts how a group of desperate outcasts changed America forever, and in the process created a livable future for generations of people across the world. Based on more than 200 interviews with ACT UP members and rich with lessons for today's activists, Sarah Schulman's new book is a revelatory exploration of the coalition's inner workings, conflicts, achievements, and ultimate fracture.

ACT UP New York, a broad and unlikely coalition of activists from all races, genders, sexualities, and backgrounds, took on the AIDS crisis with an indefatigable, ingenious, and multifaceted attack on corporations, institutions, governments, and individuals who stood in the way of AIDS treatment for all.

In its complex and intersectional power, ACT UP transformed the lives of people with AIDS and the bigoted society that had abandoned them.

Sarah schulman let the record show