Poster, Silence = Death
date: label: Date made
content: 1987
name: label: copyright holder
content: Act Up
label: maker
content: Act Up
notes: label: Description
content: Activists directed much of their rage at the Reagan administration; the president remained largely silent about the epidemic until 1987 when he declared AIDS “public health enemy number one.” The SILENCE=DEATH emblem, adopted that same year by the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP), was a call to change tactics, since neither silence nor community self-reliance had stopped the deaths. The pink triangle was a symbol of the gay rights movement.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: general subject association
content: HIV-AIDS
label: general subject association
content: LGBTQ Rights
label: Subject
content: LGBTQ
label: Subject
content: Gay Rights
setName: label: See more items in
content: Political History: Political History, General History Collection
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: Princeton Posters
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Avram Finkelstein
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.0537.04
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0537.04
label: accession number
content: 1988.0537
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Poster
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: black; white; red (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 33 1/2 in x 22 in; 85.09 cm x 55.88 cm