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Doctors, Liars, and Women: AIDS Activists Say No to Cosmo (1988)
Directed by Maria Maggenti, Jean Carlomusto
Overview
Outraged by the controversial January, 1988 article in Cosmopolitan magazine, the women in the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, (Act Up, New York), organized the first AIDS demonstration focused on women. Doctors, Liars and Women:AIDS Activists Say No To Cosmo not only documents the efforts of the Women’s Committee to organize this protest, it also serves as a how-to-guide for direct action.
Length 23 minutes