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ABOVE: AIDS activists Mel Cheren and Brent Nicholson Earle wear shirts bearing the names of friends lost to HIV/AIDS, Washington, D.C., October 10, 1992, the eve of the fourth display of the complete AIDS Memorial Quilt. (Photo by Fred W. McDarrah)

BELOW: Twenty-five years later, Brent Nicholson Earle, wearing the same shirt, speaks at ACT UP’s 30th anniversary action on March 30, 2017, passionately recounting the history of ACT UP (the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) and the AIDS crisis and shouting as he reads the names of the “sacred dead,” including Mel Cheren. He concludes, “Our full story must be told again, and again, so people never forget.” (Photo by Molly Gingras)

Join the fight. ACT UP still meets every Monday at 7pm at the LGBT Center in NYC.