Series I, 1987-2014, inclusive
3: [affinity group] ephemera, 1992
Box: 1, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ACT UP: fact sheets and flyers, March 1987-June 1988, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ACT UP: sign-in sheets, June 22-29, 1987
Box: 1, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ACT UP: "Let the Record Show...", November 1987
Box: 1, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ACT UP: press, 1987-1990, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ACT UP: organizing material [1 of 2], 1987-1995, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ACT UP: organizing material [2 of 2], 1987-1993, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ACT UP FBI Files: Know Your Rights broadsheet, c. 1988
Box: 1, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ACT UP FBI Files [1 of 4], 1988-1993
Box: 1, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ACT UP FBI Files [2 of 4], 1988-1993, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ACT UP FBI Files [3 of 4], 1988-1993, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ACT UP FBI Files [4 of 4], 1988-1993, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ACT UP: teach-in about queer history: "A His & Herstory of Queer Activism", June 1989
Box: 1, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ACT UP: "A Critique of the AIDS Clinical Trials Group", March 1, 1990
Box: 1, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ACT UP: show announcements, incl. first ACT UP fundraiser, 1990, undated
Box: 1, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ACT UP: letters and responses to moratorium of clinical trials, February, March 1992, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ACT UP: "A Direct Action Political Model of Community Research for AIDS Prevention" by Maxine Wolfe, February 21, 1992
Box: 1, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ACT UP at the Republican Convention, August 17-27, 1992
Box: 1, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ACT UP: outreach contacts, undated
Box: 1, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ACT UP affinity group project: AIDS Profiteer stickers, undated
Box: 2, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Scope and Content
Members of this ACT UP affinity group went into drug stores and placed these stickers on prescription bottles produced by targeted pharmaceutical companies.
ACT UP Congressional Action Working Group [1 of 2], 1991-1993, inclusive
Box: 2, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ACT UP Congressional Action Working Group [2 of 2], 1992
Box: 2, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ACT UP media committee: AIDS buzzwords handout, 1988
Box: 2, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ACT UP Seattle: stickers and pin, 1990
Box: 2, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ACT UP Women's Action Committee: "Doctors, Liars and Thieves" film transcript, July 22, 1992
Box: 2, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Against Equality with Ryan Conrad: Ephemera, 2011, undated
Box: 2, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Anonymous Queers source material for first broadsheet, 1989
Box: 2, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Anonymous Queers: notes and responses for the broadsheet newsletters [1 of 3], 1989-1990
Box: 2, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Anonymous Queers: notes and responses for the broadsheet newsletters [2 of 3], 1989-1990
Box: 2, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Anonymous Queers: notes and responses for the broadsheet newsletters [3 of 3], 1989-[1990]
Box: 2, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Anonymous Queers source material, 1989-1990
Box: 2, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Anonymous Queers: David Robinson letter re: broadsheet "I Hate Straights", July 2, 1990
Box: 2, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Anonymous Queers first broadsheet, 1990
Box: 2, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Anonymous Queers (and subgroup) ephemera, 1990
Box: 2, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Anonymous Queers: second project, 1991
Box: 2, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Anonymous Queers second broadsheet ephemera, June 1992
Box: 2, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Anonymous Queers: Stonewall 25th anniversary broadsheet, 1994
Box: 2, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Arts Working Group t-shirt at Occupy Wall Street: "Art Killed My Dreams", c. 2011
Box: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram: Daily News coverage of first protest, March 25, 1987
Box: 3, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram: "Enjoy AZT" notes, 1988
Box: 3, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram: "Enjoy AZT" t-shirt, 1988
Box: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram: fax zap to Steven Joseph's office, 1988
Box: 3, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram: Names Project Quilt unfolding ceremony, 1988
Box: 3, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram: "Let the Record Show..." notes, 1989
Box: 3, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram: "New York Crimes" source material, 1989
Box: 3, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram's photos/postcard of Jeffrey Pittu + Public Art Fund's "Messages to the Public", January 1, 1989-January 15, 1989
Box: 3, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram: catalogs, 1989-1992
Box: 3, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram: catalogs, 1990-2014
Box: 3, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram: notes for NIH Day of Desperation, January 1991
Box: 3, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram: Marvel Super-heroes Summer Special X-Men Issue, Summer 1991
Box: 3, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram: "A Thumbnail Sketch of the History of Scientific Research in America" for the McClintock Project, 1992-1993
Box: 3, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram: "News Story on ACT UP/FBI", 1995
Box: 3, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram: exhibition and permissions correspondence, 2010-2014
Box: 3, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram: Exhibition catalogs, 2010-2014
Box: 3, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram: Flash Collective ephemera, March 2014
Box: 3, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram: Diane Neumaier slides documenting subway graffiti, undated
Box: 3, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram: drafts and notes for articles [1 of 6], c. 1989-1995
Box: 3, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram: drafts and notes for articles [2 of 6], c. 1989-1995
Box: 3, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram: drafts and notes for articles [3 of 6], c. 1989-1995
Box: 3, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram: drafts and notes for articles [4 of 6], c. 1989-1995
Box: 3, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram: drafts and notes for articles [5 of 6], c. 1989-1995
Box: 3, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram: drafts and notes for articles [6 of 6], c. 1989-1995
Box: 4, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram: early press clippings, undated
Box: 4, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram: press, undated
Box: 4, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram's journal pages documenting Silence=Death, undated
Box: 4, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram's journal, January 1984-June 1988, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Scope and Content
Avram bought this journal in Japan in 1983, but began writing in it early 1984. Kept by his bed, the journal includes dream entries, notes for projects, and notes from meetings from the first years of ACT UP. The first bookmark opens to an entry that sketches the first Silence=Death project. The second bookmark opens to an entry in which Bill Olander offers Avram the windows of the New Museum for Gran Fury's "Let the Record Show..." exhibition (1987-1988).
Avram source material: AIDS advertisements and ephemera, undated
Box: 4, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram collaboration with Don Moffett: "Fact or Fiction?" and source material, 1988
Box: 4, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram collaboration with Don Moffett: rejected cover ideas for "Reports from the Holocaust", c. 1989
Box: 4, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram featured in still from Vincent Gagliostro's video footage, 1989
Box: 4, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram collaboration with Vincent Gagliostro: ACT UP campaign notes, c. 1990-1991
Box: 4, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram collaboration with Vincent Gagliostro: "Storm the NIH" and other, May 1990
Box: 4, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram collaboration with Vincent Gagliostro: Day of Desperation action ephemera and notes, January 1991
Box: 4, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram collaboration with Vincent Gagliostro: "Enjoy AZT" rationale for Cooper Hewitt Show, 2015
Box: 4, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram collaboration with Visual AIDS, 2011
Box: 4, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Barbara McClintock Project to Cure AIDS [1 of 9], 1992-1993
Box: 4, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Barbara McClintock Project to Cure AIDS [2 of 9], 1992-1993
Box: 4, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Barbara McClintock Project to Cure AIDS [3 of 9], 1992-1993
Box: 4, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Barbara McClintock Project to Cure AIDS [4 of 9], 1992-1993
Box: 4, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Barbara McClintock Project to Cure AIDS [5 of 9], 1992-1993
Box: 5, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Barbara McClintock Project to Cure AIDS [6 of 9], 1992-1993
Box: 5, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Barbara McClintock Project to Cure AIDS [7 of 9], 1992-1993
Box: 5, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Barbara McClintock Project to Cure AIDS [8 of 9], 1992-1993
Box: 5, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Barbara McClintock Project to Cure AIDS [9 of 9], 1992-1993
Box: 5, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Bob Rafsky material, November 1992
Box: 5, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Canadian groups: ephemera, 2009, 2012, undated
Box: 5, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
CDC Action Planning Group: notes and documents, c. 1990
Box: 5, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
CDC Working Committee: "Background on the Centers for Disease Control", c. 1991
Box: 5, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Civil Disobedience: President Quayle flyer, 1988
Box: 5, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
COSTAS affinity group: photos and "A Costa Her/History", March 2, 1991, June 1989
Box: 5, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Dyke Action Machine: "DAM! Incorporated", 2008
Box: 5, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gran Fury: "Men Use Condoms or Beat It" sticker, 1988
Box: 6, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gran Fury: notes, 1988
Box: 6, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gran Fury: Wall Street money, 1988
Box: 6, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gran Fury ad in the Bessie's Award program: "During This Program at Least 6 People with AIDS Will Die", 1988
Box: 6, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gran Fury poster: "You've Got Blood On Your Hands, Ed Koch", 1988
Box: 6, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gran Fury postcards, 1988-1989
Box: 6, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Scope and Contents
These postcards were mostly produced by ACT UP. Included in this folder is a photograph Avram took of the "Kissing Doesn't Kill" bus campaign that shows white-out graffiti done by lesbian activists in San Francisco.
Gran Fury t-shirt: "The Government Has Blood on Its Hands", c. 1988-1989
Box: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Scope and Content
This t-shirt was produced by ACT UP for an FDA Action.
Gran Fury: press and permissions, 1988-2010
Box: 6, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gran Fury: "Kissing Doesn't Kill" notes and "Art Against AIDS" poster template, March 17, 1989
Box: 6, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gran Fury catalogs [1 of 2], 1989-1991
Box: 6, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gran Fury catalogs [2 0f 2], 1989-1991
Box: 6, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gran Fury ephemera, 1989-1999, undated
Box: 6, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gran Fury: Avram's editing notes for "Kissing Doesn't Kill", [March 1990]
Box: 6, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gran Fury: Venice Biennale, 1990
Box: 6, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gran Fury: "Good Luck" notes from the Decades Show, c. 1990
Box: 6, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gran Fury collaboration with Prostitutes of New York (PONY): "Love For Sale...Free Condoms Inside" at the New Museum, February 16-April 7, 1991
Box: 6, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gran Fury: unseen third project "The Christian Agenda Revealed", 1993-1994
Box: 6, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gran Fury: "Read My Lips" ephemera, 1995
Box: 6, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gran Fury t-shirt: "Read My Lips", c. 1995
Box: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gran Fury: Harvard Art Museum "ACT UP New York" show catalog, April 2010
Box: 6, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gran Fury: 80 WSE show front piece, 2011
Box: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gran Fury: 80 WSE show material, 2011
Box: 6, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gran Fury catalogue raisonne for 80 WSE show, 2011
Box: 6, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gran Fury: notes and interview for 80 WSE show, 2011
Box: 6, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gran Fury's Opening Ceremony reissued t-shirt: "4 questions", 2012
Box: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gran Fury: original roll of stickers produced by ACT UP "The Government Has Blood on Its Hands", undated
Box: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Harper Canada AIDS action ephemera, C. 2012
Box: 6, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Lesbian Avengers 1994 calendar, 1994
Box: 6, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Marys: political funeral flyer, c. 1990
Box: 6, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Pink Tank: "We Will Not Protect You", 2004
Box: 6, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Queer Action Figures: zine, 1989
Box: 6, Folder: 26 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Queer Nation: "The Queer National," vol. 1, no.2, June 1991
Box: 6, Folder: 27 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Queer Nation collaboration with Joe Ferrari: "Smash Heterosexism", undated
Box: 6, Folder: 28 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Queer Nation t-shirt: "Queers Bash Back", undated
Box: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Silence=Death: AIDSGATE t-shirt, 1987
Box: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Silence=Death: AIDSGATE transparency, 1987
Box: 7, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Silence=Death blank postcard, 1987
Box: 7, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Silence=Death early handout for Foley Square, 1987
Box: 7, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Silence=Death: press, permissions and catalogs [1 of 2], 1987-1997
Box: 7, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Silence=Death: press, permissions and catalogs [2 of 2], 1988-1993
Box: 7, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Silence=Death AIDS monument at Sheridan Square: photos and letters, c. 1989
Box: 7, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Silence=Death Ortez Alderson commemorative pin, 1989
Box: 7, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Silence=Death: William O. Johnston, Jr. obituary and memorial piece, 1990
Box: 7, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Silence=Death correspondence and annotated folder re: printing, 1991, 1993
Box: 7, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Silence=Death pins, stickers and magnet, produced by ACT UP, undated
Box: 7, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Silence=Death t-shirt, undated
Box: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Treatment Action Group (TAG) research, 1990-1993
Box: 7, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Treatment of Data Committee research [1 of 2], 1987-1992
Box: 7, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Treatment of Data Committee research [2 of 2], 1990-1992
Box: 7, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Treatment of Data Committee: FDA Action Handbook, September 21, 1998
Box: 7, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights: "Civil Rights Aspects of Public Health Policies and Initiatives to Control AIDS", 1988
Box: 7, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
various collective ephemera: ACT UP, Adam Ralston, AIDS Policy Project, Art + Positive, Boy with Arms Akimbo, CDC working committee [1 of 2], 1988-1991, undated
Box: 7, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
various collective ephemera: Fierce Pussy, GANG, Little Elvis, Nelson Santos, Q-Think, Tom Kalem, WHAM! [2 of 2], 1988-2013, undated
Box: 7, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
various collectives and other individuals: ephemera, 1990-2014, undated
Box: 7, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Visual AIDS tote: AIDS On Going Going On, 2013
Box: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Wave 3 t-shirt: "Harmony Moore has to die", undated
Box: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
XXX Fruit literary arts quarterly introduction, 1995
Box: 7, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
