Guest Episode: LGBTQ&A: Peter Staley: ACT UP Changed the World — Here’s How

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🗓️ 26 March 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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As a complement to our episode featuring Ann Northrop, meet Peter Staley, another seminal member of ACT UP, in this 2021 interview courtesy of the LGBTQ&A podcast, hosted by Jeffrey Masters and produced by The Advocate in partnership with GLAAD. Listen to the LGBTQ&A podcast here or wherever you get your podcasts. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:36.9	And thank you so much.
0:40.4	Hi, Eric Marcus here. If you listened to our recent Making Gay History episode featuring
0:53.4	Anne Northrup, you already know that Act Up, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, was
0:58.6	a driving force in bringing attention to the AIDS crisis and calling to account the government,
1:03.4	the pharmaceutical industry, and religious institutions. The group's actions and tactics,
1:08.6	history and legacy are still talked about, studied, and tapped as inspiration. So as a bonus,
1:15.0	I wanted to share a recent interview with another prominent Act Up New York member, Peter
1:19.2	Staley. The interview was conducted last year by my friend Jeffrey Masters, host of the
1:24.0	LGBT Q&A podcast, which is produced by the Advocate Magazine in partnership with Glad. It's
1:29.9	a terrific and sometimes surprising interview, and just one of the more than 200 LGBT Q&A
1:35.7	episodes that are currently available. Listen to them wherever you get your podcasts,
1:40.6	or visit LGBTQpodcast.com.
1:49.3	Peter Staley was working on Wall Street when one day he was handed a flyer about a, quote,
1:59.2	massive AIDS demonstration taking place in front of the trendy church, just a block away.
2:05.3	The flyer listed demands targeting the government, the Food and Drug Administration,
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