ACT UP Ithaca records, 1989-1993.
Collection Number: 7561
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
ACT UP Ithaca records, 1989-1993.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
7561
Abstract:
Records include subject files on women and AIDS, communities of color, health/community
organizations, HIV exclusion (INS immigration policy), treatment data, Queer issues,
Rep. James Seward, Senator Jesse Helms; files on various ACT UP actions, the national
Marlboro-Miller boycott called in 1990, Board of Education's policy, and presidential
candidate's positions on AIDS (1992); Also, member Ned Brinkley's files on local and
national ACT UP events and news.
Creator:
ACT UP Ithaca (Organization)
ACT UP (Organization)
Quanitities:
2 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
ACT UP is a non-partisan group of individuals committed to nonviolent, direct action
to "end the AIDS crisis."
Records include subject files on women and AIDS, communities of color, health/community
organizations, CDC redefinition of AIDS, HIV exclusion (INS immigration policy), treatment
data, Queer issues, Rep. James Seward, Senator Jesse Helms; files on ACT UP Ithaca
actions and other ACT UP actions nationwide; file on networking with other ACT UP
chapters; and file on ACT UP New York (City) actions.
Included is ACT UP's file on the national Marlboro-Miller boycott called in 1990
in response to the corporation's financial contributions to North Carolina senator
Jesse Helms; ACT UP criticized Helms who was up for re-election for blocking efforts
to provide AIDS education and prevention materials and for advocating mandatory HIV
testing.
Also, agendas and minutes; information for new members (includes a history of ACT
UP Ithaca); and media coverage of their activities.
Also subject files, including material on presidential candidate's positions on
AIDS (1992), New York State and U.S. Policies on AIDS, local and national actions,
and the Ithaca City School District's Health curriculum.
ACT UP files on local issues and projects including continued availability of free,
anonymous HIV testing at Cornell University Health Services' Gannett Clinic; HIV/AIDS
policies and practices at the Tompkins County Jail; action in Albany; the Corning
Painted Post School District
Board of Education's policy on students and staff with HIV and the AIDS Curriculum
Guide; publicity, position papers, ephemera, and minutes
Also, member Ned Brinkley's files on local and national ACT UP events and news.
| Series I. Correspondence | Box 4 |
| Series II. Internal Files | Box 3 |
| Series III. Actions | Box 2 |
| Series IV. Conferences | Boxes 3,4 |
| Series V. Media | Boxes 1,3,4 |
| Series VI. Subject Files | Boxes 2,3,4 |
| Series VII. Ned Brinkley Files | Box 5 |
Periodicals
| ACT UP Reports | 1990: Fall/Winter, 1991 (No.2) |
| ACT UP/Los Angeles | 1991: Apr./May, Sept./Oct. |
| ACT UP/San Francisco | 1990: Feb./Mar., June/July |
| Activist Alert | 1993: Mar. |
| AIDS Action Update | 1991: Aug./Sept. |
| AIDS Clinical Care | 1991: May-Sept.; 1992: Jan. |
| AIDS Conference Bulletin | 1990: June 21; June 23 |
| AIDS Treatment News | 1990:June 15 |
| AIDS Update | 1991: Aug. |
| America Living with AIDS | 1990: July |
| AmFAR (American Foundation for AIDS Research) | 1991: 1 |
| BLK | 1990: May, July, Aug., Oct. |
| Body Positive | 1990: June |
| Community Center News | 1991: Oct. |
| Cry Out! ACT UP/Pittsburgh | 1991: May 8, June 18, Nov. 12; 1993: Feb. 5 |
| Digest | 1990: 32, 34, 38, 46, 56, 58-60, 62-63; 1991: 75, 82, 95; 1992: 126 |
| Focus on AIDS | 1991: Apr. |
| HIV New Mexico | 1992: Mar. |
| Innovation | 1990: Spring |
| NMAS (New Mexico AIDS Services, Inc.) | 1992: Apr. |
| OUT [New Mexico] | 1992: Mar. |
| Treatment Issues | 1993: Feb. |
INFORMATION FOR USERS
ACT UP Ithaca Records, #7561. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
Names:
Brinkley, Ned.
Helms, Jesse.
Queer Nation
Gannett Health Center (Cornell University)
Places:
Ithaca (N.Y.)
Subjects:
HIV infections.
HIV (Viruses).
AIDS (Disease)
Boycotts.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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Series I. Correspondence
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| Box 4 | Folder 2 |
Correspondence re: Free, Anonymous HIV Testing
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1992-1993 |
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Scope and Contents
Includes letters of Dr. Elkind, Dir. Cornell University Health Services, Gannett Health
Center.
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Series II. Internal Files
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| Box 3 | Folder 1 |
Meeting Agendas
|
1990-1991 |
| Box 3 | Folder 2 |
Meeting Minutes
|
1990-1992 |
| Box 3 | Folder 3 |
New Membership Sheet, Structural Information
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| Box 3 | Folder 4 |
Priorities--June
|
1990 |
| Box 3 | Folder 5 |
ACTG Community Constituency Group (AIDS Clinical Trial Group)
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Series III. Actions
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| Box 2 | Folder 2 |
ACT UP Actions
|
1991 |
| Box 2 | Folder 3 |
National Health Care Action, May 13, 1991.
|
1991 |
| Box 2 | Folder 4 |
Day of Desperation, January 23, 1991.
|
1991 |
| Box 2 | Folder 5 |
Miscellaneous Actions
|
1990-1991 |
| Box 2 | Folder 6 |
National Institute of Health Action, May 17, 1990.
|
1990 |
| Box 2 | Folder 7 |
Chicago Action, April 21-23, 1990
|
1990 |
| Box 2 | Folder 8 |
Ithaca Actions/Events
|
1990 |
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Series IV. Conferences
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| Box 3 | Folder 9 |
International Answers Conference,
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Sep. 26-29, 1991 |
| Box 3 | Folder 10 |
7th International Conference on Aids,
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Jun. 16-21, 1991 |
| Box 3 | Folder 11 |
Integrating HIV/AIDS Prevention into All that We Do,
|
Mar. 20, 1991 |
| Box 3 | Folder 12 |
6th International Conference on AIDS
|
1990 |
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Series V. Media
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Flyers
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| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Marlboro-Miller Boycott Fact Packet: includes clippings, endorsements, letters.
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1990 |
| Box 1 | Folder 3-5 |
Clippings, press releases re: Marlboro/Miller boycott
|
1990 |
| Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Articles related to medical issues/drug testing and miscellaneous relevant information
|
1991 |
| Box 1 | DVD-4386 |
"United in Anger: A History of ACT UP" (film)
|
2012 |
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1 DVDs.
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Series VI. Subject Files
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| Box 2 | Folder 9 |
ACT UP Network
|
1991 |
| Box 2 | Folder 10 |
ACT UP/NY Calendars
|
1991 |
| Box 2 | Folder 11-12 |
ACT UP/NY Treatment and Data Committee
|
1990-1991 |
| Box 2 | Folder 13 |
CDC Redefinition of AIDS (Center for Disease Control)
|
1991 |
| Box 2 | Folder 14 |
Health/Community Organizations
|
1991 |
| Box 2 | Folder 15 |
National Network and Other ACT UPs
|
1990-1991 |
| Box 2 | Folder 16-17 |
Communities of Color: includes clippings, flyers, excerpts from National People of
Color AIDS Activist Conference
|
1990-1991 |
| Box 2 | Folder 18 |
Helms, Jesse
|
1990 |
| Box 2 | Folder 19 |
HIV Exclusion Rule: Immigration, INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service)
|
1991 |
| Box 2 | Folder 20-21 |
Queer Stuff [mostly clippings and flyers]
|
1990-1991 |
| Box 2 | Folder 22 |
Seward, Representative James: Zap, Local Press
|
1990 |
| Box 2 | Folder 23-24 |
Women and Aids: ACTG 076 (AIDS Clinical Trials Group)
|
1990-1991 |
| Box 3 | Folder 6-8 |
Media, clippings, flyers
|
1990-1992 |
| Box 3 | Folder 13 |
AIDS-phobia
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 14 |
Health
|
1990-1991 |
| Box 3 | Folder 15 |
History: a capsule history of "ACT UP"
|
1987-1990 |
| Box 3 | Folder 16 |
Immigrants
|
1991 |
| Box 3 | Folder 17 |
Jail
|
1989-1991 |
| Box 3 | Folder 18 |
Racism
|
1991 |
| Box 3 | Folder 19 |
Safer Sex
|
1991 |
| Box 4 | Folder 1 |
Documents on Anonymous HIV Testing, New York State
|
1991-1993 |
| Box 4 | Folder 3 |
Newspaper articles and abstracts on issues of HIV Testing Confidentiality
|
1992-1993 |
| Box 4 | Folder 4 |
Clippings on Anonymous HIV Testing
|
1993 |
| Box 4 | Folder 5 |
Tompkins County Jail AIDS in Prisons
|
1992-1993 |
| Box 4 | Folder 6 |
Albany issues and Barbara McClintock Project to Cure Aids
|
1990-1993 |
| Box 4 | Folder 7 |
"Corning-Painted Post Area School District"
|
1988 |
| Box 4 | Folder 8 |
"Ithaca City School District Health Curriculum"
|
1989 |
| Box 4 | Folder 9 |
ACU UP Public Relation/Media
|
1993 |
| Box 4 | Folder 10 |
ACT UP/Ithaca Public Relations/Media
|
1987-1993 |
| Box 4 | Folder 11 |
ACT UP/Ithaca Meeting Minutes and Position Papers
|
1991 |
| Box 4 | Folder 12 |
NGLTF (National Gay and Lesbian Task Force) Action Kit
|
1992 |
| Box 4 | Folder 13 |
Prisidential Candidates' Policies on AIDS
|
1992 |
| Box 4 | Folder 14 |
AIDS Czar Nominee Kristine Gebbie
|
1993 |
| Box 4 | Folder 15 |
Newsletters: Gay Mens's Health Crisis and NGLTF ( National Gay and Lesbian Task Force)
[transfered to periodicals holdings]
|
1993 |
| Box 4 | Folder 16 |
9th International Conference on AIDS
|
June 7-11 1993 |
| Box 4 | Folder 17 |
Miscellaneous articles
|
1991-1993 |
| Box 4 | Folder 18 |
"AIDS in New York State"
|
1992 |
| Box 4 | Folder 19 |
"AIDS in New York State"
|
1991 |
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Series VII. Ned Brinkley Files
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| Box 5 | Folder 1 |
New York/General Info
|
1989-1990 |
| Box 5 | Folder 2 |
NYC/Phone Zaps
|
1990 |
| Box 5 | Folder 3 |
CDC/Releases
|
1989 |
| Box 5 | Folder 4 |
NYC/T&D
|
1990 |
| Box 5 | Folder 5 |
ACT UP/Seattle
|
1990 |
| Box 5 | Folder 6 |
Mass Media/NYC
|
1990 |
| Box 5 | Folder 7 |
Newsletters
|
1989-1990 |
| Box 5 | Folder 8 |
ACT UP/Ithaca - minutes
|
1990 |
| Box 5 | Folder 9 |
Albany Action
|
1990 |
| Box 5 | Folder 10 |
Sex Industry
|
1990 |
| Box 5 | Folder 11 |
Miscellaneous
|
1990 |