How to Survive a Plague

Me and sister's favorite uncle used to live in Montreal while we grew up in a small town 600 miles away. Every summer he'd visit and it always felt like a big event. He had a bigger then life personality and took it upon himself to always make sure everyone in the room was…

Mr. DuLac

Whenever you think "we survived Reagan we can survive this" remember that thousands of people definitely did not survive Reagan and we have to act up. We've always had to, we always will, don't get complacent

Charlie

Peter Staley... I love you so much.

witch

i think that i will be thinking about the unnamed man who spread his lover mike’s ashes on the white house lawn while repeatedly saying i love you to him forever

kate

“Can we all, before it’s too late, begin to understand each other. Will we realize that we share similar motivations?” How to Save a Plague’s message that change is possible if coalitions are intentionally built and organized to disrupt those who fail to govern the people…

claira curtis

Hey you, do you want to spend two hours getting very mad at homophobic rhetoric and the consequential mass murder of nearly an entire generation of gay men? A furious thunderbolt of a documentary that unspools the AIDS crisis through the use of superbly edited found…

Zachary

Invaluable archival footage of the front lines of the ACT UP & TAG movements. And another friendly reminder that, in times of crises, one shouldn't count on the US government for help. 2012, best of

teamgal

we should put giant condoms on politicians’ houses more often

river

Okay so I'll own up to the fact that this could have been structured much much better, but I consider ACT UP one of the most important and effective activist groups we've ever had in the United States and I'm glad there's now multiple documentaries about them. Especially…

Bri