Poster, Silence = Death
Object Details
- Description
- Activists directed much of their rage at the Reagan administration; the president remained largely silent about the epidemic until 1987 when he declared AIDS “public health enemy number one.” The SILENCE=DEATH emblem, adopted that same year by the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP), was a call to change tactics, since neither silence nor community self-reliance had stopped the deaths. The pink triangle was a symbol of the gay rights movement.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Avram Finkelstein
- 1987
- ID Number
- 1988.0537.04
- catalog number
- 1988.0537.04
- accession number
- 1988.0537
- Object Name
- Poster
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- black; white; red (overall color)
- Measurements
- overall: 33 1/2 in x 22 in; 85.09 cm x 55.88 cm
- See more items in
- Political History: Political History, General History Collection
- Government, Politics, and Reform
- Princeton Posters
- National Museum of American History
- general subject association
- HIV-AIDS
- LGBTQ Rights
- Subject
- LGBTQ
- Gay Rights
- Record ID
- nmah_1051178
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a8-f886-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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