05. Silence = Death, ACT UP New York

Silence = Death, ACT UP New York Logo, on black T-shirt. The logo was designed 1986 by ACT-UP New York members and sympathizers. Designers of that logo “turned the Nazis’ downward-pointing pink triangle, sewn onto the uniforms of gay men in concentration camps, so that it pointed upward, thereby permanently connecting the AIDS crisis visually to the legacy of the Holocaust but at the same time subverting it.” — Sarah Schulman, Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993, page 322.

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