"David Wojnarowicz Smoking - Owned by MMG, 1981." Photo by Peter Hujar. 1987 The Peter Hujar Archive LLC. Courtesy of Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York and Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Exterior of 189 Second Avenue c. 2016
Artist and activist David Wojnarowicz died of AIDS-related illness at the age of 37 on #OTD 1992. One week after his death, Wojnarowicz was given the first political funeral to come out of the AIDS epidemic, organized by two members of an #ACTUPNY affinity group.
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Watching in horror from afar. Thinking of the beautiful communities affected by hatred and cruelty.
#actupNY #resist #uequalsu
Huge crowd even in the 🌧️ Use your rights or lose them #HandsOff #ActupNY #RiseandResistNYC #50501ny
Death by 1,000 cuts
#ActUpNy #riseandresist #housingworks #Teslatakedown
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#ACTUPNY made a request for all New Yorkers at today’s protest:
Call NYS Comptroller DiNapoli (Dem, next election 2026) and as a constituent demand the NYS Pension Fund divest from Tesla stock.
212-383-1600
ACT UP NY commemorated his 38th anniversary with a protest march “Death by a 1000 Musk Cuts” #actupny #teslatakedown
In case you missed it on Out-FM. No to Anti-Trans Censorship/Rewriting History; Stop the Assault on Global AIDS Survival Programs. #transgender #History #actupny #LGBTQ Listen at: outfm.org/liberation/i...