Wed, May 03
|186 E Court St
Never Silent: Act Up & My Life of Activism with Peter Staley
Join us for a special youth-led, conversation with Peter Staley on his memoir “Never Silent: ACT UP and My Life in Activism". Staley is a long time HIV/AIDS & Gay Rights Activist. Book signing • nibbles • powerful conversation • community • empowerment • activism
Time & Location
May 03, 2023, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
186 E Court St, 186 E Court St, Doylestown, PA 18901, USA
About the Event
Never Silent: ACT UP & My Life of Activism at the Rainbow Room with Peter Staley
Wednesday May 3, 2023 • 6-7:30pm
At the Rainbow Room in Doylestown
186 E. Court Street, Doylestown PA 18901 (Inside Salem Church)
Join us for a special youth-led, conversation with Peter Staley on his memoir “Never Silent: ACT UP and My Life in Activism.”
Book signing • nibbles • powerful conversation • community • empowerment • activism
The book reveals Staley’s wild ride from Wall Street bond trader to ACT UP poster boy, and the explosive and sometimes painful years to follow—years filled with triumph, humiliation, joy, loss, and persistence. ACT UP – the AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power – would change the course of HIV/AIDS, pressuring the medical and political establishment to finally respond with research that ultimately saved millions of lives. Staley organized some of the group’s most spectacular actions, from shutting down trading on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange to putting a giant condom over the house of Senator Jesse Helms.
Peter Staley has been a long-term HIV/AIDS and gay rights activist, first as an influential member of ACT UP New York, then as the founding director of TAG, the Treatment Action Group. He was a 2016 Fellow at Harvard’s Institute of Politics and is a leading subject in the Oscar-nominated documentary “How to Survive a Plague.” More recently, Staley co-founded the PrEP4All Collaboration and the COVID-19 Working Group – New York.
This special community event is hosted by Planned Parenthood Keystone’s Rainbow Room and Youth 4 Unity and will be facilitated by local queer youth activist and organizer Eva Houlton (they/them). Please join us!
Hosts:
The Rainbow Room
Youth4Unity
Sponsors:
• FACT Bucks
• PFLAG Bucks County
• Family Service Associaton of Bucks County
• Bucks County Suicide Prevention Task Force
• YWCA Bucks County
• NAACP Bucks County
• Desis of Doylestown
• Doylestown Pride Festival
• GLSEN Bucks County
• Rise Up Doylestown