Doctors, Liars, and Women: AIDS Activists Say No to Cosmo
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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.
Status: Released
Released Date: 1988-01-01
Runtime: 23 mins
Director: Jean Carlomusto, Maria Maggenti
Spoken language: English
Genres: Documentary
Original title: Doctors, Liars, and Women: AIDS Activists Say No to Cosmo
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Production Countries: United States of America
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