Boy with the Bullhorn

Preface | ix

Part I: Becoming an Activist

1 Awakening | 3

2 First Steps | 22

3 Welcome to ACT UP | 38

4 We Are Family | 52

Part II: Expanding the Agenda

5 ACT NOW and the Nine Days of Rain | 67

6 Taking Actions | 83

7 Summer Awakening | 97

8 Seize Control of the FDA | 117

Part III: Crashing Through

9 Targeting City Hall | 141

10 Storming the Ivory Tower | 163

11 Remember Stonewall Was a Riot | 179

12 Parallel Tracks | 192

13 Heading Inside | 211

14 Stop the Church | 222

Part IV: The Gorgeous Mosaic

15 The Myers Mess | 235

16 Time's Up, Mario! | 248

17 Storm the NIH | 256

18 Inside or Out | 266

19 Can the Center Hold? | 280

20 Bombs Are Dropping | 301

Part V: Days of Desperation

21 Desperate Measures | 317

22 Splitting Differences | 333

23 Target Bush | 351

24 Strategies and Consequences | 370

Part VI: AIDS Campaign '92

25 ACT UP / Petrelis | 383

26 The In-Your-Face Primary | 394

27 Unconventional Behavior | 402

28 Vote as If Your Life Depended on It | 417

Afterword | 437

Acknowledgments | 443

Notes | 449

Index | 483

Photographs follow page 214

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1980s-1990s; Activism; ACT UP; AIDS; CDC; FDA; LGBTQ+; New York City; NIH; Silence = Death