Doctors, Liars, and Women: AIDS Activists Say No to Cosmo

Outraged by the controversial January, 1988 article in Cosmopolitan magazine, the women in the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, (Act Up, New York), organized the first AIDS demonstration focused on women. Doctors, Liars and Women:AIDS Activists Say No To Cosmo not only documents the efforts of the Women's Committee to organize this protest, it also serves as a how-to-guide for direct action.

Directed by Jean Carlomusto, Maria Maggenti

Images

Related

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

20227.1out of 10

How to Survive a Plague

20126.8out of 10

Paris Is Burning

19918.0out of 10

Howard

20186.8out of 10

Heart of a Dog

20156.5out of 10

Feminists: What Were They Thinking?

20187.5out of 10

Anna Nicole Smith: You Don't Know Me

20236.1out of 10

Fuck

20066.4out of 10

The Corporation

20037.6out of 10

Come See Me in the Good Light

20257.2out of 10

Cameraperson

20166.7out of 10

Life Itself

20147.5out of 10

Fed Up

20147.3out of 10

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story

20186.9out of 10

Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

20086.9out of 10

Audrey

20207.1out of 10