#maxine wolfe

[tafferling]

Maiden & Paper Crane

Aiden is finding out that you ought to listen to your elders. They may end up being just as much of a nerd as his Max.

And Kyle? Well, Kyle is having the time of his life 'educating' the post-fall youth on very important and culturally impactful sagas. It's one of his fav* things to do.

Max (and Aiden) belong to @mackspaws!

*Like getting to work with @rageflippedtables is one of my fav things, ever. THANK YOU. Flips knocked it so far out of the park, I am !!!!

[louderthanmythoughts]

Maxine Wolfe in Lesbian Avengers Eat Fire Too (1993)

[lesbianartandartists]

Maxine Wolfe, Belfast, Ireland, 1998

[outweek30]

AIDS Activists March Up Sixth Avenue "Out of the Ghetto and Into the Streets"

NEW YORK [July 10, 1989] — In an attempt by ACT UP to "repoliticize" lesbian and gay pride, an estimated 1,000 people marched without police permits from Sheridan Square to the rally organized by the Heritage of Pride in Cetral Park on Saturday, June 24 [1989]. The march included a kiss-in at 34th Street.

The march spread across Sixth Avenue and was ope city block in length. Groups of demonstrators directed, traffic on the side streets by linking arms, "We don't trust the cops to do this for us," said one marcher who was blocking 14th Street.

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ACT UP also placed importance on conducting their march without a police permit. No direct communication had taken place between ACT UP and the police department prior to the march, according to Maxine Wolfe, one of the event's organizers. "We have to be out at all places and all times without police permission. That's the kind of world we want to make," she said. Neil Broome also expressed the need to fight against heavy city regulation of demonstrations, commenting, "the expression of dissent has become so fucking controlled in this country it's a joke."

The demonstrators did encounter attempted police intervention at 14th Street, however, as seven police vehicles and about 20 officers tried to maneuver the marchers into half of the width of Sixth Avenue, in order to allow traffic to pass. Commented Wolfe, "The cops are very happy to leave you in your own ghetto, and 14th Street is the symbolic dividing line between the Village and the upper part of the city . . . . [But] we said we're just going to stay here until you let us go," Aft.er about ten fairly tense minutes, the cops allowed the marchers to proceed unobstructed.

ACT UP participants felt this march carried a stronger political message than Sunday's parade, for which ACT UP also turned out in force. "The people we walked through were not our friends . . . and we gave out 5,000 flyers about why we marched to people who were not there to cheer us on," said Wolfe.

Ron Goldberg referred to the march as an opportunity to bring lesbian and gay issues to the entire population of the city. "It's Stonewall," he said. "We're celebrating a political event. Our issues are political."

— Mark Chesnut, OutWeek Magazine No. 3, July 10, 1989, p. 14.

[provenance]

Interference Archive | Audio Interference 19: Lesbian Herstory Archives

[thedustyrebel]

End Lesbian Oppression

Exploring feminist lesbian graffiti from 1982 with legendary activist Maxine Wolfe.

More photos: Feminist Street Art/Graffiiti, Queer Street Art

[anadyomede]

People came together to work on that that everybody said would not work together. And that's what was amazing about it. My affinity group [within ACT UP] had 24 people, there were only 7 of us that were women. Several of the men had HIV... several of them are dead at this point, okay? They spent like four years working on a campaign about changing the CDC definition [of AIDS] for women, and for poor people, and for drug users. That's something that nobody ever says about ACT UP, they always talk about ''gay white men, selfish gay white men'' and that was not - we got tremendous support in ACT UP for that work.''

Maxine Wolfe, in the documentary ‘‘United In Anger’’, speaking about the campaign to change the CDC's AIDS definition to include symptoms specific to women and IV drug users. At the time, most women with AIDS were ineligible for disability benefits due to their different symptoms.

[supersadtruelunchstory]

Part of this was about the difference in status between women and men at the very beginning of the AIDS crisis, even though they were both sick. Women were erased totally and also pictured as vectors to men getting infected, and all the advertising on the subways in New York was about women taking condoms with them in their purse. It would say ‘Don’t forget these when you go out,’ as if women wore condoms. It sort of reminded me of my own growing up, and it was the woman who always had to be the one responsible. We said that we wanted to get the message out that heterosexual men are responsible; that they’re the only people being let off the hook in this epidemic by the media. Gay men are being put down; prostitutes and women are being told they have to take condoms along. What is anyone asking from straight men in the world? Nothing.

Maxine Wolfe, This Is about People Dying, interview with Laraine Sommella about ACT UP in the early days