Includes index.

Introduction: How Change Is Made -- Mechanisms of Power: Puerto Ricans in ACT UP -- The First Treatment Activists -- Choosing the Right Target: Seize Control of the FDA -- Collective Leadership: Stop the Church -- Inspiration and Influence: Larry Kramer, Maxine Wolfe, Mark Harrington -- Treatment and Data #2: Citizen Scientists -- Changing the Definition: Women Don't Get AIDS, We Just Die From It -- Mother and Son: The Death of Ray Navarro, the Vision of Patricia Navarro -- Harm Reduction as a Value, an Ideal, a Way of Life and Death: ACT UP's Campaign for Needle Exchange -- The Artistic Life of Resistance -- Strategic Images: Photography, Video, and Film -- Getting and Creating Media -- Community Research Initiative, Dr. Joseph Sonnabend, and the Battle over AZT -- ACT UP and the Haitian Underground Railroad -- Lawyers for the People -- The Culture and Subculture of Civil Disobedience -- Insurance Equals Access, and Without Access There is No Treatment -- How the ACT UP Housing Committee Because Housing Works, Housing for Homeless People with AIDS -- YELL: The Evolution of Queer Youth Politics -- Funding ACT UP's Campaign -- Storm the NIH Action at the National Institutes of Heath, Washington, D.C., May 21, 1990 -- The Dinner: December 1, 1990 -- Day of Desperation: January 23, 1991 -- Are Women "Vectors of Infection," or People with AIDS? Clinical Trial 076, April 1991 -- AIDS Hysteria: The Case of Derek Link -- The Split: January 1992 -- Treatment and Data -- Ashes Action: October 5, 1992 -- Political Funerals -- Conclusion: The Myth of Resilience and the Enduring Relationship of AIDS -- A Personal Conclusion -- Appendix 1: ACT UP and the FBI -- Appendix 2: Tell It to ACT UP -- ACT UP New York Time Line -- ACT UP Oral History Interviews