Schulman and fellow ACT UP veteran Jim Hubbard spent seventeen years collecting 188 long-form interviews with current and former ACT UP members. A legendary name in the story of HIV/AIDS activism, the AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power turns thirty-five next year and is still going strong, but the full scope of its achievements remains widely underappreciated.
Sarah Schulman’s new book, Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987–1993, is the remarkable, timely capstone to her decades-long labor of documenting the improbable miracle that was and is ACT UP. Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987–1993, by Sarah Schulman, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 702 pages, $40
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