AFTER SILENCE

Early in the 1980s AIDS epidemic, six gay activists created one of the most iconic and lasting images that would come to symbolize a movement: a protest poster of a pink triangle with the words Silence=Death. The graphic and the slogan still resonate widely toda y, the latter an anthem for AIDS activism, and are often usedand misusedto brand the entire movement, appearing in a variety of ub iquitous manifestations. Cofounder of the collective Silence=Death and member of the art collective Gran Fury, Avram Finkelstein tel ls the story...[Read more]