- Collection:
- LGBTQ Collection
- Title:
- Silence = Death [t-shirt], circa 1980s
- Creator:
- ACT UP (Organization)
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 1980/1989
- Subject:
- AIDS (Disease)--Government policy
Protest movements
HIV (Viruses)--Government policy
HIV-positive persons--Social conditions
ACT UP (Organization) - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
- Medium:
- T-shirts
information artifacts - Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- Andrew Wood is a graphic designer and gay activist. Born in Atlanta in 1962, the son of two doctors, Wood's early years were filled with art, books, and culture. He attended public schools in DeKalb County and worked in public radio. In 1980, Wood moved to San Francisco for art school and to join the thriving gay organization, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. This charitable group of gay men dressed in nuns habits performed activism and street theater informed with the pagan spirituality of the Radical Faerie movement. While in San Francisco, Wood experienced the AIDS epidemic which caused him to return to Atlanta. After the Democratic National Convention in 1988, he and a handful of fellow protesters started an Atlanta Chapter of ACT/UP. ACT/UP practiced aggressive tactics, civil disobedience, and direct action to bring attention to the plight of AIDS sufferers. Wood moved to New Orleans in 1990 and stayed there until 2004 when he returned to Atlanta to care for his elderly mother.
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/lgbtq/id/3628
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/iiif/2/lgbtq:3628/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- The organization that has made the Item available reasonably believes that the Item is not restricted by copyright or related rights, but a conclusive determination could not be made. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: Q121_textiles006, Andrew P. Wood papers, Archives for Research on Women and Gender. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
- Original Collection:
- Andrew P. Wood papers
https://archivesspace.library.gsu.edu/repositories/2/resources/1439
Series III: Textiles
Archives for Research on Women and Gender - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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