Era: 1987—AIDS CRISIS

March 24 1987: ACT UP Demonstrates on Wall Street

New York Times article on first ACT UP demonstration, March 24, 1987

1987: First AIDS Treatment, AZT, Introduced

First HIV/AIDS antiretroviral drug, AZT

January 10 1987: Opens Mexican Diaries Show

Tommy’s Illness/Mexico City, 1987.

October 1987: U.S. Senate Promotes Abstinence

"Control [Jesse Helms]" 1989 by Gran Fury (artists' collective). Courtesy Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library Digital Collections.

1987: Das Reingold: New York Schism

1987: Something from Sleep II

”Something from Sleep II” 1987-1988

1987: Untitled (Pig Scull)

Untitled (pig skull) 1987

1987: Untitled (After Fire)

December 1987: Tom Rauffenbart Tests HIV+

Something from Sleep III (For Tom Rauffenbart) 1989

December 26 1987: David’s mentor Peter Hujar dies of AIDS, age 53

Peter Hujar, Self-Portrait 1975. Gelatin silver print © 2022 The Peter Hujar Archive / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York