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'''ACT-UP''' was a militant gay organization which was known for its confrontational actions. The group was founded in 1987 by the [[gay]] writer [[Larry Kramer]] to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic, lobbying for research looking into HIV/AIDS cures or treatments. In December 1989, the group disrupted [[Mass]] at St.Patrick's Cathedral, [[New York]]. The group was protesting the [[Catholic]] Church's teachings against [[homosexual]] acts and [[abortion]]. Many protesters were arrested and Catholics alleged that protesters had committed [[sacrilege]]. <ref>{{cite web |title=Concerns, Confusion Over ‘LGBT’ Group in St. Patrick’s Parade |author=Kevin Jones/CNA |publisher=National Catholic Register |date=5 Sep 2014 |url=http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/concerns-confusion-over-lgbt-group-in-st.-patricks-parade |accessdate=05 Feb 2017 |quote=In December 1989, the group ACT UP led a notorious “Stop the Church” protest at New York City’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral that resulted in several dozen activists disrupting the church during Mass. Most activists laid down in the church aisles, while others threw condoms, chained themselves to pews or loudly harangued the Mass’ celebrant, Cardinal John O’Connor. One activist desecrated the Blessed Sacrament. More than 100 were arrested in the incident.}}</ref> Some people from ACT-UP founded [[Queer Nation]] in 1990. In 1991, Eric Pollard, co-founder of the Washington D.C. branch of ACT-UP, in an interview with ''Washington Blade'', a major homosexual newspaper, admitted that he and other group members learned to apply subversive tactics, drawn largely from the voluminous [[Mein Kampf]], which some of them studied as a working model. They struck "intently and surgically" into whatever institutions they believed to stand in their way.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Jeffrey Satinover |title=Neither Scientific nor Democractic |journal=The Linacre Quarterly |volume=60 |issue=May 1999 |page=87 |year=1999 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=ldMJAQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA1-PA87}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Eric Pollard |title=Time to Give Up Fascist Tactics |journal=Washington Blade |chapter=Letters to the Editor |pages=39 |date=31 January 1992}}</ref> ==See also==[[Zapping the Shrinks]] == References =={{Reflist}}