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RETROACTIVISM

RETROACTIVISM GLQ, Vol. GLQ 12:2 1, pp. 000–000 997 Paul EeNam Park Hagland pp. 303–317 © Duke University Press Copyright © 2006 by Duke University Press While post–baby boomer leftists have long idealized the Vietnam protests they A comprehensive collection of ACT UP and other AIDS videotapes has been preserved as part of the Royal S. Marks special collection at the New York Public Library.4 James Wentzy, a longtime ACT UP/New York member and video artist, worked on the project by remastering the tapes; he subsequently edited a special ACT UP fifteenth-anniversary compilation video titled Fight Back, Fight AIDS: Fifteen Years of ACT UP (2002) for MIX: The New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film/Video Festival. Wentzy’s seventy-five-minute video culled highlights from video recordings of meetings and actions, from 1987 to 2002.5 A history of activism specifically rather than of AIDS more generally, Fight Back, Fight AIDS is composed of powerful moments intended for an audience familiar with the group and its history. Without voice-over narration or text for contextual overviews, the video plays almost like footage direct from the activist front with only occasional titles specifying the events’ dates and locations. The documentation suggests the social and personal http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies Duke University Press

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Duke University Press
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Copyright 2006 by Duke University Press
ISSN
1064-2684
eISSN
1527-9375
DOI
10.1215/10642684-12-2-303
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GLQ, Vol. GLQ 12:2 1, pp. 000–000 997 Paul EeNam Park Hagland pp. 303–317 © Duke University Press Copyright © 2006 by Duke University Press While post–baby boomer leftists have long idealized the Vietnam protests they A comprehensive collection of ACT UP and other AIDS videotapes has been preserved as part of the Royal S. Marks special collection at the New York Public Library.4 James Wentzy, a longtime ACT UP/New York member and video artist, worked on the project by remastering the tapes; he subsequently edited a special ACT UP fifteenth-anniversary compilation video titled Fight Back, Fight AIDS: Fifteen Years of ACT UP (2002) for MIX: The New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film/Video Festival. Wentzy’s seventy-five-minute video culled highlights from video recordings of meetings and actions, from 1987 to 2002.5 A history of activism specifically rather than of AIDS more generally, Fight Back, Fight AIDS is composed of powerful moments intended for an audience familiar with the group and its history. Without voice-over narration or text for contextual overviews, the video plays almost like footage direct from the activist front with only occasional titles specifying the events’ dates and locations. The documentation suggests the social and personal

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GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay StudiesDuke University Press

Published: Jan 1, 2006

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