HOW ACT UP CHANGED AMERICA
(Michael Specter's article appeared in The New Yorkers, 7/7; Photo: In 1988, protesters laid siege to the F.D.A. for a day, one of many interventions designed to capture public attention.Photograph by Catherine McGann / Getty.) The defiant group of AIDS activists was itself riven by discord. What can the movement's legacy, of both ferocity and […]