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"In 1987, Larry Kramer, whose abrasive style and militant stance had led to his parting ways with GMHC just a year after its formation, was instrumental in the formation of the outspoken group ACT UP. At the time, although I recognized that it served an important function, I was uncomfortable with some of the organization’s more combative tactics (specifically, the outing of gay public figures). But as Fleetwood Mac taught us, time makes you bolder; even children get older. Looking back now, I can much more fully appreciate how important those acts of public revelation (and revolution) were. I think Kramer’s strategies were the ones that worked, and I think we need to behave similarly in the present moment. Other civil rights movements, championing other causes (from women’s rights to the civil rights movement to gay rights and disability rights) have all learned, one way or the other, that to ask too nicely often means to be refused, or simply drowned out and ignored."
