For activists, HIV/AIDS was an emergency, a time of “any means necessary,” says Jessica Lacher-Feldman, co-editor of Up Against the Wall: Art, Activism, and the AIDS Poster. Her new book explores the ...

Forty years ago, a mysterious wasting illness linked to promiscuous sex and intravenous drug use became a global epidemic and the focus of a massive public health campaign and activist community. Now, ...

In 1986, at the apex of the AIDS epidemic, six gay activists developed a visual and verbal manifesto: a poster with a black background, a pink triangle, and white letters that read, SILENCE=DEATH.

Since the discovery of HIV/AIDS in the early 1980s, medical organizations have launched outreach campaigns in an effort to educate the public about the disease and how to prevent it. As our ...