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INTERVIEWS 002-007 »
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INTERVIEW #002
Robert Vazquez-Pacheco
December 14, 2002
Majority Action
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INTERVIEW #003
Moises Agosto
December 15, 2002
ACT UP Puerto Rico
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INTERVIEW #004
Gregg Bordowitz
December 17, 2002
Seize Control of the FDA
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INTERVIEW #005
Jean Carlomusto
December 19, 2002
The First Wall Street Demo
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INTERVIEW #006
Patrick Moore
January 14, 2003
Violence
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INTERVIEW #007
Ming Yuen S. Ma
January 15, 2003
Challenging Power Relationships
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INTERVIEWS 008-013 »
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INTERVIEW #008
Alexandra Juhasz
January 16, 2003
Power & Privilege
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INTERVIEW #009
Dudley Saunders
January 18, 2003
Treatment & Data
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INTERVIEW #010
Maria Maggenti
January 20, 2003
Lesbians for Bush
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INTERVIEW #011
Ann Philbin
January 21, 2003
ACT UP & the Art World
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INTERVIEW #012
Mark Harrington
March 8, 2003
Exposed Uninfecteds & Long-Term Non-Progressors
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INTERVIEW #013
Aldo Hernandez
March 17, 2003
The "Erotic Space" at Meat
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INTERVIEWS 014-019 »
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INTERVIEW #014
Michael Nesline
March 24, 2003
T-Shirts
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INTERVIEW #015
Karin Timour
April 5, 2003
Insurance Discrimination Kills People with AIDS
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INTERVIEW #016
Anne-christine d'Adesky
April 15, 2003
The Lesbian Subculture
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INTERVIEW #017
Bill Snow
April 16, 2003
Vaccines
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INTERVIEW #018
Karl Soehnlein
April 18, 2003
Killing the Buddha
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INTERVIEW #019
Gedalia Braverman
April 20, 2003
Inside Moles
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INTERVIEWS 020-025 »
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INTERVIEW #020
Michael Petrelis
April 21, 2003
Action! Action! Action!
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INTERVIEW #021
Russell Pritchard
April 24, 2003
The Death of Mark Lowe Fisher
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INTERVIEW #022
Rick Loftus
April 26, 2003
Green-Haired Yahoos
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INTERVIEW #023
Emily Nahmanson
April 27, 2003
The Sacrilegious Wafer Smasher
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INTERVIEW #024
Kendall Thomas
May 3, 2003
Indicted at the Level of my Desire
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INTERVIEW #025
Lei Chou
May 5, 2003
Safe Sex Education
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INTERVIEWS 026-031 »
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INTERVIEW #026
Iris Long
May 16, 2003
We Need Treatment & We Need Data
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INTERVIEW #027
Ann Northrop
May 28, 2003
Strong and Angry
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INTERVIEW #028
Richard Deagle
September 13, 2003
The First Arrest of the Day
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INTERVIEW #029
Michelangelo Signorile
September 20, 2003
The ACT UP Media Committee
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INTERVIEW #030
Mary Dorman
October 17, 2003
We're Ready to Proceed, Counselor
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INTERVIEW #031
David Z. Kirschenbaum
October 19, 2003
Informed Consent
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INTERVIEWS 032-037 »
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INTERVIEW #032
Ron Goldberg
October 25, 2003
The ACT UP Timeline
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INTERVIEW #033
Frank Jump
November 1, 2003
Are You on the List?
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INTERVIEW #034
Roma Baran
November 5, 2003
Tom Cunningham
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INTERVIEW #035
Larry Kramer
November 15, 2003
ACT UP's Greatest Achievement
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INTERVIEW #036
Joy Episalla
December 6, 2003
Tim Bailey's Political Funeral
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INTERVIEW #037
Jamie Leo
December 21, 2003
Father Achtung Torres
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INTERVIEWS 038-043 »
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INTERVIEW #038
Ron Medley
December 28, 2003
Crashing a Pataki Fundraiser
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INTERVIEW #039
Karen Moulding
January 16, 2004
Trespass
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INTERVIEW #040
Steve Quester
January 17, 2004
Brunch at Saks Fifth Avenue
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INTERVIEW #041
Gregg Gonsalves
January 19, 2004
Pages Spewing Out of the Fax
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INTERVIEW #042
Tom Kalin
February 4, 2004
A Room Bristling with Ideas and Energy
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INTERVIEW #043
Maxine Wolfe
February 19, 2004
People, People, You Have to Listen
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INTERVIEWS 044-049 »
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INTERVIEW #044
Marlene McCarty
February 21, 2004
Blasphemy at the Venice Biennale
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INTERVIEW #045
Andrew Vélez
February 26, 2004
Our First Major, Major Action
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INTERVIEW #046
James Wagner
February 28, 2004
Veiling the Statue of Liberty
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INTERVIEW #047
Jim Eigo
March 5, 2004
"A Queens Housewife"
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INTERVIEW #048
Amy Bauer
March 7, 2004
Why We Do Civil Disobedience
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INTERVIEW #049
Eric Sawyer
March 10, 2004
New Offices for DAS
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INTERVIEWS 050-055 »
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INTERVIEW #050
Peter Cramer
October 26, 2002
Abominations
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INTERVIEW #051
Elias Guerrero
March 17, 2004
AIDS Remains a Political Struggle
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INTERVIEW #052
Kate Barnhart
March 21, 2004
Students in Chains
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INTERVIEW #053
Dan Keith Williams
March 26, 2004
300 People Do the Same Thing, Change Happens
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INTERVIEW #054
Jay Blotcher
April 24, 2004
Rude and Rash
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INTERVIEW #055
Neil Broome
April 25, 2004
Tube Tops & Bad Perms (The Freedom Ride)
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INTERVIEWS 056-061 »
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INTERVIEW #056
Andrew Miller
October 6, 2004
The Backbone of Direct Action
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INTERVIEW #057
Jose Fidelino
October 13, 2004
A Conscience in ACT UP
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INTERVIEW #058
Sandy Katz
October 15, 2004
Ronald Reagan Murderer!
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INTERVIEW #059
MaxZine Weinstein
October 16, 2004
Challenging Homophobia
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INTERVIEW #060
SPREE
October 16, 2004
Tales from the National AIDS Hotline
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INTERVIEW #061
Nettles (Yaron Schweizer)
October 17, 2004
An Accidental Action
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INTERVIEWS 062-067 »
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INTERVIEW #062
Stephen Shapiro
October 23, 2004
The Most Frequently Asked-for Material at the NYPL
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INTERVIEW #063
Jim Lyons
February 16, 2005
Resisting Arrest & Assaulting an Officer
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INTERVIEW #064
Vincent Gagliostro
July 8, 2005
Lowering the Price of AZT
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INTERVIEW #065
Bill Dobbs
November 21, 2006
If you are an on-duty member of the NY Police Department...
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INTERVIEW #066
Jim Fouratt
November 28, 2006
ACT UP Did That
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INTERVIEW #067
Peter Staley
December 9, 2006
Invading the New York Stock Exchange
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INTERVIEWS 068-073 »
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INTERVIEW #068
George Carter
April 16, 2007
Information Provided Freely
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INTERVIEW #069
Heidi Dorow
April 17, 2007
Dying Without a Diagnosis
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INTERVIEW #070
Marion Banzhaf
April 18, 2007
The Difference Between Life and Death
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INTERVIEW #071
Catherine Gund
April 20, 2007
A Line We Were Willing to Cross
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INTERVIEW #072
Richard Elovich
May 14, 2007
Medical Necessity and Needle Exchange
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INTERVIEW #073
David Barr
May 15, 2007
ACT UPs Sprung Up Around the Country
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INTERVIEWS 074-079 »
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INTERVIEW #074
Douglas Crimp
May 16, 2007
Complexity into Sloganeering
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INTERVIEW #075
Gerri Wells
May 24, 2007
Let Gerri Go!
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INTERVIEW #076
Terry McGovern
May 25, 2007
The CDC Definition Excludes Women
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INTERVIEW #077
Mark Milano
May 26, 2007
Vicious Young Republicans
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INTERVIEW #078
Ken Bing
May 30, 2007
Kennebunkport
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INTERVIEW #079
Bob Huff
May 31, 2007
That Amazing Poster
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INTERVIEWS 080-085 »
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INTERVIEW #080
Garance Franke-Ruta
June 6, 2007
Saving Their Own Lives
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INTERVIEW #081
Matt Ebert
July 13, 2007
George Bush at the Waldorf
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INTERVIEW #082
David Robinson
July 16, 2007
Sending Ashes to Washington
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INTERVIEW #083
Michael Perelman
July 18, 2007
Going Too Far
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INTERVIEW #084
Patricia Navarro
July 20, 2007
ACT UP Became a Rock
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INTERVIEW #085
BC Craig
June 23, 2008
Target Bush
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INTERVIEWS 086-091 »
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INTERVIEW #086
Robyn Hutt
June 25, 2008
The Beginnings of Testing the Limits
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INTERVIEW #087
Jill Harris
June 27, 2008
The Necessity Defense
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INTERVIEW #088
Rebecca Cole
June 30, 2008
The Wrong Side: Wall Street and Cosmo
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INTERVIEW #089
Donald Grove
July 1, 2008
People Do Drugs
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INTERVIEW #090
Herb Spiers
July 20, 2007
A Horrible Name
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INTERVIEW #091
Lola Flash
July 8, 2008
Strip-searched!
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INTERVIEWS 092-097 »
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INTERVIEW #092
Sharon Tramutola
July 9, 2008
Death in the St. Vincent's ER
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INTERVIEW #093
Risa Denenberg
July 11, 2008
Women & AIDS Teach-In
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INTERVIEW #094
Karen Ramspacher
July 12, 2008
Infiltration & the Holland Tunnel
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INTERVIEW #095
Sandra Elgear
July 22, 2008
Editing Voices from the Front
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INTERVIEW #096
Debbie Gavito
July 24, 2008
Getting Arrested
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INTERVIEW #097
Victor Mendolia
August 15, 2008
The Church Has Never Recovered
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INTERVIEWS 098-103 »
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INTERVIEW #098
Loring McAlpin
August 18, 2008
The Issues Became More Complex
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INTERVIEW #099
Betty Williams
August 23, 2008
HIV+ Haitians Imprisoned in Guantánamo
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INTERVIEW #100
Gonzalo Aburto
August 26, 2008
We Were Part of It
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INTERVIEW #101
Adam Rolston
August 27, 2008
ACT UP Graphics
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INTERVIEW #102
Brian Zabcik
September 9, 2008
Storm the N.I.H.
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INTERVIEW #103
Jason Heffner
October 21, 2008
The Working Document
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INTERVIEWS 104-109 »
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INTERVIEW #104
Jeffrey Fennelly
January 4, 2010
That Really Saved Lives
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INTERVIEW #105
Charlie Franchino
January 11, 2010
Dinner with Fauci
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INTERVIEW #106
Zoe Leonard
January 13, 2010
Needle Exchange
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INTERVIEW #107
Charles King
January 20, 2010
A Two-Tiered System
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INTERVIEW #108
Avram Finkelstein
January 23, 2010
Silence = Death
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INTERVIEW #109
Anna Blume
January 25, 2010
A Fabulous Militia of Thinkers
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INTERVIEWS 110-115 »
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INTERVIEW #110
Chris Cochrane
January 27, 2010
How to Advocate for Yourself
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INTERVIEW #111
Daniel Wolfe
February 27, 2010
We Can Get to People
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INTERVIEW #112
Bill Bahlman
March 10, 2010
ACT UP & the ACTGs
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INTERVIEW #113
Dale Peck
March 17, 2010
The #2 News Story for 36 Hours
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INTERVIEW #114
Susan C. Brown
March 24, 2010
Screaming in their Faces
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INTERVIEW #109
Timothy Lunceford
April 28, 2010
A Puff of Dreams
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INTERVIEWS 116-120 »
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INTERVIEW #116
Brad Taylor
April 29, 2010
I Love My Brother
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INTERVIEW #117
Alexis Danzig
May 1, 2010
A Moment of Clarified Anger
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INTERVIEW #118
Steven Keith
June 22, 2010
Equal Opportunity Harrasser
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INTERVIEW #119
Mary Cotter
June 23, 2010
Lesbians with AIDS
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INTERVIEW #120
John Weir
June 24, 2010
Fight AIDS, Not Arabs!
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INTERVIEW #121
Donna Binder
June 25, 2010
Photography from the Inside
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INTERVIEWS 122-127 »
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INTERVIEW #122
Kim Christenson
June 26, 2010
Drawing Lessons from the Past
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INTERVIEW #123
Elizabeth Meixell
September 30, 2010
God is a Lesbian
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INTERVIEW #124
George Plagianos
October 7, 2010
People are Living on the Street
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INTERVIEW #125
Steven Cordova
October 22, 2010
Not of One Mind
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INTERVIEW #126
Joe Ferrari
October 23, 2010
The Strength to be ACT UP
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INTERVIEW #127
Emily Gordon
November 5, 2010
AIDS 24/7
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INTERVIEWS 128-133 »
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INTERVIEW #128
Debra Levine
December 21, 2010
A Police Practice that Needs to be Stopped
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INTERVIEW #129
Monica Pearl
April 11, 2011
Justified!
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INTERVIEW #130
John Voelcker
May 30, 2012
A Great Kiki Mason Story
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INTERVIEW #131
Jon Winkleman
May 31, 2012
Santa Claus Has HIV!
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INTERVIEW #132
Scott Wald
June 1, 2012
A Tsunami of Feeling
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INTERVIEW #133
Hunter Reynolds
June 2, 2012
Demo at the Metropolitan Museum
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INTERVIEWS 134-139 »
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INTERVIEW #134
Blair Fell
June 3, 2012
We Needed to Scream
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INTERVIEW #135
Charles Hovland
June 5, 2012
$30,000 in T-Shirts
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INTERVIEW #136
Dean Lance
June 7, 2012
DIVA-TV
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INTERVIEW #137
Lee Raines
June 8, 2012
My First Arrest
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INTERVIEW #138
Joan Gibbs
June 21, 2012
Legal Observer
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INTERVIEW #139
Stephen Spinella
July 18, 2012
Democracy at Work
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INTERVIEWS 140-145 »
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INTERVIEW #140
Jeffrey Griglak
July 19, 2012
Support & Understanding
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INTERVIEW #141
Illith Rosenblum
July 20, 2012
Shedding Light on Dark Corners
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INTERVIEW #142
Kevin Robert Frost
August 23, 2012
Mama's Got Tickets to Bette Midler
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INTERVIEW #143
Ira Sachs
August 24, 2012
David and Goliath
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INTERVIEW #144
Eugene Fedorko
August 25, 2012
Alternative and Holistic Treatments
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INTERVIEW #145
David Corkrey
September 4, 2012
The Great Hero of AIDS Activism
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INTERVIEWS 146-151 »
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INTERVIEW #146
Esther Kaplan
September 7, 2012
Shutting Down 4 Bridges & Tunnels
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INTERVIEW #147
Richard Burns
September 11, 2012
The Speech
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INTERVIEW #148
Tony Arena & Ron Grunewald
September 22, 2012
We Have to Find Out About This
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INTERVIEW #149
Tracy Morgan
October 12, 2012
Smart, Tough and Scary
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INTERVIEW #150
Brent Nicholson Earle & Nathaniel Siegel
December 11, 2012
A Watershed Moment
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INTERVIEW #151
John Riley
January 2, 2013
Full Funding for ADAP
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INTERVIEWS 152-157 »
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INTERVIEW #152
Ira Manhoff
January 4, 2013
Zaps!
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INTERVIEW #153
Andrea Benzacar
January 5, 2013
A Period of Incredible Urgency
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INTERVIEW #154
Polly Thistlethwaite
January 6, 2013
Women, AIDS & Activism
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INTERVIEW #155
Linda Meredith
March 10, 2013
We're Here to Tell You
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INTERVIEW #156
Scott Robbe
December 5, 2013
Walkie Talkies
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INTERVIEW #157
Jason Simon
December 8, 2013
Changing the Landscape of Video
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INTERVIEWS 158-163 »
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INTERVIEW #158
David Gerstner
December 19, 2013
Articulating the Complexities
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INTERVIEW #159
Cynthia Chris
January 3, 2014
This is Something I Can Do
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INTERVIEW #160
Charles Stimson
January 5, 2014
I Always Loved Heckling
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INTERVIEW #161
Blane Charles
January 7, 2014
Chalk Queen
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INTERVIEW #162
Nanette Kazaoka
January 15, 2014
The Naked Action
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INTERVIEW #163
Lori Cohen
January 23, 2014
We Knew the Ins and Outs
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INTERVIEWS 164-169 »
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INTERVIEW #164
Eric Rhein
January 25, 2014
This Joyful Caravan
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INTERVIEW #165
Garry Kleinman
March 3, 2014
Activists Doing the Work of Bureaucrats
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INTERVIEW #166
Cesar Carrasco
March 9, 2014
An Epidemic that Never Ends
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INTERVIEW #167
Drew Hopkins
March 11, 2014
Robert's Rules of Order
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INTERVIEW #168
Sam Avrett
March 12, 2014
No Barriers
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INTERVIEW #169
Mark Aurigemma
September 11, 2014
Homosexuals Arrested in AIDS Drug Protest
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INTERVIEWS 170-175 »
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INTERVIEW #170
Rebecca Smith
September 18, 2014
Community Partnership in AIDS Clinical Trials
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INTERVIEW #171
Sean Strub
September 30, 2014
Stigma
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INTERVIEW #172
Richard Jackman
October 15, 2014
Plague
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INTERVIEW #173
Rollerena
February 2, 2015
Ticket Queen
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INTERVIEW #174
Paul O'Dwyer
February 9, 2015
The HIV Ban
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INTERVIEW #175
Margaret McCarthy
February 19, 2015
AIDS Treatment Registry
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INTERVIEWS 176-181 »
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INTERVIEW #176
Tom Keane
February 24, 2015
8 Heads Spitting Communion Wafers
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INTERVIEW #177
Christine Vachon
February 26, 2015
So Many People Getting Sick
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INTERVIEW #178
Allan Clear
March 1, 2015
Harm Reduction
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INTERVIEW #179
Aner Candelario
March 31, 2015
My Heart Was Thumping
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INTERVIEW #180
Gabriel Rotello
April 6, 2015
The Best Therapy
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INTERVIEW #181
Dolly Meieran
April 21, 2015
AIDS & Abortion
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INTERVIEWS 182-186 »
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INTERVIEW #182
Chip Duckett
April 26, 2015
A Photo That Tells A Story
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INTERVIEW #183
Benjamin Heim Shepard
April 23, 2015
Gore's Greed Kills
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INTERVIEW #184
Samuel Lurie
May 3, 2015
Gender in ACT UP
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INTERVIEW #185
Duncan Osborne
May 5, 2015
Populations Perceived as Politically Powerful
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INTERVIEW #186
Alan Klein
May 7, 2015
Pool Party!
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INTERVIEW #187
Joseph Sonnabend
November 12, 2015
Bactrim
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