Doctors, Liars, and Women: AIDS Activists Say No to Cosmo

Doctors, Liars, and Women: AIDS Activists Say No to Cosmo

  • Overview
  • Crew

Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 1988

Runtime

0h 23m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

Doctors, Liars, and Women: AIDS Activists Say No to Cosmo

Director

Maria Maggenti

Description

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.