To celebrate the now iconic annual Queer party in honour of George Michael, a coalition of London’s LGBTQIA+ community groups have announced ‘This is My Culture’ 8 to take place on June 15th 2024. This will be the 8th anniversary of the legendary party set up after the artist’s death in 2016 to celebrate his…
Press Release / UK Coalition launch of ‘Fund Healthcare Not Warfare
Wednesday 21st February – 7-9pm ACT UP and friends launch the ‘Fund Healthcare Not Warfare’ UK Coalition at Amnesty International UK Office, 25 New Inn Yard, London, EC2A 3EA – fully accessible / Ticket link here ABOUT FUND HEALTHCARE NOT WARFARE. In 2020, after a decade of austerity and chronic underinvestment and understaffing, UK health services dealt with mounting pressure…
ACT UP and friends launch the ‘Fund Healthcare Not Warfare’ UK Coalition
Wednesday 21st February – 7-9pm ACT UP and friends launch the ‘Fund Healthcare Not Warfare’ UK Coalition at Amnesty International UK Office, 25 New Inn Yard, London, EC2A 3EA – fully accessible / Ticket link here Come and celebrate the beauty of collective action and explore critical examples of tactical, strategic and ethical examples to disrupt the war-machine and…
What a night! Pics and good news from our ACT UP London – World AIDS Day 2023 Fundraiser
We raised over £500 for HIV / AIDS movements in London including Positive East @the_food_chain and African Rainbow Family at our ACT UP London World Aids Day 2023 bonanza on December 1st and unquantifiable amount of love generated for friends new and old who have lost loved ones to HIV / AIDS and all those…
Commemorating 40 years since the discovery of the HIV virus – Join ACT UP this World AIDS Day!
Commemorating 40 years since the discovery of the HIV virus. Please join us at the ACT UP London World AIDS Day Films and fundraiser party! We are STILL not silent. When – Friday December 1st 2023 Time – 7.30pm – Welcome from ACT UP and films till 9pm followed by DJ’s until 3am! Where – The Queer Adelaide, 483…
Get your exclusive ‘Read My Lips’ t-shirt and support ‘ACT UP London’ here!
For World AIDS Day – December 1st 2023 – order this iconic t-shirt design of the original ACT UP long sleeve T-shirt as worn by Jimmy during the Read My Lips campaign – all profits will be donated to our ongoing healthcare activism at ACT UP London. Thanks lovers! Please get yourself a t-shirt ACT…
ACT UP London World AIDS Day 2023 mischief-makers gathering application
Please fill out these few short questions for all who want to come to the ACT UP London World AIDS Day mischief making gathering to make the most out of it! There are v. limited spaces. It is from 6-9pm on Friday 25th August at Positive East, 159 Mile End Rd, Bethnal Green, London E1…
Triple-Whammy ACT UP Celebration events with ‘Queer Footprints – A Guide to Uncovering London’s Fierce History’
Join at any of the launches. pre-order the book for yourselves, library, institution and join us the flagship launch. Queer Footprints – A Guide to Uncovering London’s Fierce History at The Bishopsgate Institute alongside UK Black Pride on the evening of the 27th of May! Friday May 19th 2023 – facebook event here – organised by ACT UP…
F*ck off This is my Culture – Annual queer protest and party in honour of the legendary George Michael to take place Saturday 10.06.23
‘Done with the sofa? Done with the hall? Done with societally enforced standards of sexuality which don’t conform with your reality? On 8th April 1998 in a Miami public toilet, so was George Michael. So bring your friends, learn the lyrics to ‘Outside’, wear whatever makes you feel fabulous and ‘Let’s Go Outside’. Rest In…
01.12.2022 – ACT UP Activists Take Over Trafalgar Square on World AIDS Day 2022 – Full Coverage
‘AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power’ (ACT UP) London Chapter, an international, grassroots political group working to end the AIDS pandemic, stages mass ‘die-in’ on World AIDS Day to ‘Remember the Dead and Fight for the Living’. A message from us at ACT UP LONDON We’re still buzzing after yesterday’s #WorldAIDSDay action to Remember the Dead and Fight…
For Immediate Release 30.11.22 – ACT UP London announce mass ‘die in’ at Trafalgar Square for World AIDS Day
‘AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power’ (ACT UP)* London Chapter, an international, grassroots political group working to end the AIDS pandemic, are mobilising activists and citizens for a mass ‘Die-In’ in Trafalgar Square, this coming World AIDS Day (WAD)* December 1st 2022, from 7am, to ‘Remember the Dead and Fight for the Living’. The group is…
16.11.22 – For Immediate Release – ACT UP announces ‘‘Remember the Dead and Fight for the Living’ ‘Die-In’ demonstration on World AIDS Day
‘AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power’ (ACT UP)* London Chapter, an international, grassroots political group working to end the AIDS pandemic, are mobilising activists and citizens for a mass ‘Die-In’ protest at an undisclosed location in central London, this coming World AIDS Day (WAD)* December 1st 2022 to ‘Remember the Dead and Fight for the Living’. …
Support Our Crowdfunder! ‘Remember the Dead and Fight for the Living’ ‘Die-In’ demonstration on World AIDS Day
CROWDFUNDER LINK HERE Here at ‘AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power ’ (ACT UP) London Chapter HQ we thought that ‘Die-In’s’ were a strategy that our legendary elders used at the height of the AIDS pandemic in the 1980’s and 1990’s. We thought the gravity of representing actual deaths was a thing of the past. See the…