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Stop The Church
Stop the Church was a demonstration organized by members of AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) on December 10, 1989, that disrupted a Mass being said by Cardinal John O'Connor at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. One-hundred and eleven protesters were arrested, 53 of whom were arrested inside the church. The main objective of the demonstration was to protest O'Connor's opposition to the teaching of safe sex in the public school system, and his opposition to the distribution of condoms to curb the spread of AIDS. During planning, the protest was joined by Women's Health Action and Mobilization (WHAM!), who opposed the Catholic position on abortion rights. The protest was condemned in media editorials and by national figures such as President George H. W. Bush, and was controversial in the gay community. The protest, and especially the desecration of the Eucharist, made headline news in the US and several European countries. The protest was a major effort for ACT-U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Demonstration (political)
A political demonstration is an action by a mass group or collection of groups of people in favor of a political or other cause or people partaking in a protest against a cause of concern; it often consists of walking in a mass march formation and either beginning with or meeting at a designated endpoint, or rally, in order to hear speakers. It is different from mass meeting. Demonstrations may include actions such as blockades and sit-ins. They can be either nonviolent or violent, with participants often referring to violent demonstrations as " militant." Depending on the circumstances, a demonstration may begin as nonviolent and escalate to violence. Law enforcement, such as riot police, may become involved in these situations. Police involvement at protests is ideally to protect the participants and their right to assemble. However, officers don't always fulfill this responsibility and it's well-documented that many cases of protest intervention result in power abuse. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dogma
Dogma, in its broadest sense, is any belief held definitively and without the possibility of reform. It may be in the form of an official system of principles or doctrines of a religion, such as Judaism, Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, or Islam, the positions of a philosopher or philosophical school, such as Stoicism, and political belief systems such as fascism, socialism, progressivism, liberalism, and conservatism. In the pejorative sense, dogma refers to enforced decisions, such as those of aggressive political interests or authorities. More generally, it is applied to some strong belief that its adherents are not willing to discuss rationally. This attitude is named as a dogmatic one, or dogmatism, and is often used to refer to matters related to religion, though this pejorative sense strays far from the formal sense in which it is applied to religious belief. The pejorative sense is not limited to theistic attitudes alone and is often used with respect to political or ph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Hilferty
Robert Hilferty (December 14, 1959 – July 24, 2009) was an American journalist, filmmaker, and AIDS activist based in New York City. Career Hilferty began his career in 1988 working as a production assistant for Robert Altman on ''The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial'' and '' Tanner '88''. Although he was HIV-negative, Hilferty became an AIDS activist following the death of his lover. He shot video footage at ''Act Up''s December 1989 St. Patrick's Cathedral demonstration which he used to create the documentary '' Stop the Church''. ''PBS'' initially planned to broadcast the film in August 1991 but then canceled the broadcast, citing the film's numerous denunciations of the Roman Catholic Church and calling it "inappropriate for distribution because of its pervasive tone of ridicule." Hilferty responded that ''PBS''s decision was a "cowardly and unprincipled" form of censorship. Various local ''PBS'' stations, including New York's ''WNET'', aired it in protest. Hilferty fol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Harrington (HIV/AIDS Activist)
Mark Harrington (Born in , in San Francisco) is an HIV/AIDS researcher, a staunch activist for HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis awareness, and the co-founder and policy director of the Treatment Action Group (TAG).''Victory deferred: how AIDS changed gay life in America'' John-Manuel Andriote, University of Chicago Press, 1999 After graduating from in 1983, Harrington spent time exploring and did not commit to one specific career. When the AIDS epidemic became personal for Harrington, and close friends were being infected with HIV (he himself was di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Garcia (AIDS Activist)
Robert Garcia may refer to: People * Robert Garcia (baseball) (born 1996), American baseball player *Robert Garcia (California congressman) Robert Julio Garcia (born December 2, 1977) is an American politician and educator serving as the U.S. representative for California's 42nd congressional district since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 28th mayor of Long ... (born 1977), United States Representative from California; former mayor of Long Beach, California *Robert Garcia (California assemblymember), state legislator *Robert Garcia (New York politician) (1933–2017), United States Representative from New York *Robert Garcia (American boxer) (born 1975), boxing trainer and former IBF Super Featherweight Champion *Robert Garcia (squash player) (born 1986), Filipino squash player *Bobbito Garcia (Robert Garcia, born 1966), Puerto Rican-American DJ, writer, and broadcaster Fictional characters *Robert Garcia (Art of Fighting), Robert Garcia ''(Art of Figh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Kramer
Laurence David Kramer (June 25, 1935May 27, 2020) was an American playwright, author, film producer, public health advocate, and gay rights activist. He began his career rewriting scripts while working for Columbia Pictures, which led him to London, where he worked with United Artists. There he wrote the screenplay for the film ''Women in Love'' (1969) and received an Academy Award nomination for his work. In 1978, Kramer introduced a controversial and confrontational style in his novel '' Faggots'', which earned mixed reviews and emphatic denunciations from elements within the gay community for Kramer's portrayal of what he characterized as shallow, promiscuous gay relationships in the 1970s. Kramer witnessed the spread of the disease later known as Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) among his friends in 1980. He co-founded the Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC), which has become the world's largest private organization assisting people living with AIDS. Kramer grew frustr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Staley
Peter Staley (born January 9, 1961) is an American political activist, known primarily for his work in HIV/AIDS activism. As an early and influential member of ACT UP, New York, he founded both the Treatment Action Group (TAG) and the educational website AIDSmeds.com. Staley is a primary figure in the Oscar-nominated documentary ''How to Survive a Plague''. Early life and education Peter Staley was born in Sacramento, California, in 1961, the third of four children. His father was a plant manager for Procter & Gamble. Their family moved throughout the US until he was eight when his family moved to Berwyn, Pennsylvania, when his father was hired to run the PQ Corporation, based in Philadelphia. He attended Oberlin College after first studying classical piano at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music for a semester. He majored in economics and government, spending his junior year abroad at the London School of Economics before graduating from Oberlin in 1983. Following his graduation, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coalition For Gay And Lesbian Rights
A coalition is formed when two or more people or groups temporarily work together to achieve a common goal. The term is most frequently used to denote a formation of power in political, military, or economic spaces. Formation According to ''A Guide for Political Parties'' published by the National Democratic Institute and the Oslo Center for Peace and Human Rights, there are five steps to coalition building. The first step in coalition building involves ''developing a party strategy'' that will prepare for successful negotiation. The more effort parties place on this step, the more likely they are to identify strategic partners, negotiate a good deal and avoid some of the common mistakes associated with coalition building. The second step is ''negotiating a coalition''. Based on the strategy that each party has prepared, the parties come together to negotiate and reach an agreement on the coalition terms. Depending on the context and objectives of the coalition, these negotiat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Humm
Andy Humm (born October 19, 1953Heredia, Christopher. (5 November 2001Gays searching for ways to help after terror attacks''San Francisco Chronicle''. Accessed 13 April 2007.) is a journalist, activist and currently co-host of TV news program '' Gay USA''. Career As a gay news reporter, Humm has covered virtually every major gay and AIDS news story since the 1980s. Humm began writing regularly for the gay press in the 1970s and 1980s when he worked for New York City News.Meet Andy Humm ''Gay USA''. Accessed 12 July 2007. Humm began hosting gay news programs with ''Pride and Progress'', aired on the Gay Cable Network (GCN), in 1985. He co-anchored GCN's nightly coverage of the 1988 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Cuomo
Mario Matthew Cuomo ( , ; June 15, 1932 – January 1, 2015) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 52nd governor of New York for three terms, from 1983 to 1994. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, Cuomo previously served as the lieutenant governor of New York from 1979 to 1982 and the secretary of State of New York, secretary of state of New York from 1975 to 1978. He was the father of former New York governor Andrew Cuomo and NewsNation News presenter, anchor Christopher Cuomo. Cuomo was known for his Modern liberalism in the United States, liberal views and public speeches, particularly A Tale of Two Cities (speech), his keynote speech address at the 1984 Democratic National Convention in which he sharply criticized the policies of the Ronald Reagan, Reagan administration, saying, "Mr. President, you ought to know that this nation is more a ''A Tale of Two Cities, Tale of Two Cities'' than it is just a shining 'city upon a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Community Service
Community service is unpaid work performed by a person or group of people for the benefit and betterment of their community contributing to a noble cause. In many cases, people doing community service are compensated in other ways, such as getting a lunch for free. In many countries, there are programs to incite people to do community service. People may do community service to get citizenship. In some cases, it is possible to replace a criminal justice sanctions with community service. There may also be school or class requirements. Obtaining certain benefits may be linked to doing some form of community service. For all these reasons, it is distinct from volunteering. Background (Community) service is a non-paying job performed by one person or a group of people for the benefit of their community or its institutions. Community service is distinct from volunteering, since it is not always performed on a voluntary basis and may be performed for a variety of reasons, including ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eucharist In The Catholic Church
Eucharist () is the name that Catholic Christianity, Christians give to the Sacraments of the Catholic Church, sacrament by which, according to their belief, the body and blood of Jesus, Christ are Real presence of Christ in the Eucharist, present in the Eucharist, bread and wine Consecration in Christianity, consecrated during the Catholic eucharistic liturgy, generally known as the Mass in the Catholic Church, Mass. The definition of the Eucharist in the 1983 Code of Canon Law, 1983 ''Code of Canon Law'' as the sacrament where Christ himself “is contained, offered, and received” points to the three aspects of the Eucharist according to Catholic theology: the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist, Holy Communion, and the holy sacrifice of the Mass. The name ''Eucharist'' comes from the Greek word which means 'thanksgiving" and which refers to the accounts of the last supper in Matthew 26:26–28, Mark 14:22–24, Luke 22:19–20 and 1 Corinthians 11:23–29, all of whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
