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>> so many people in act up, came from arts, marketing, they sold aids activism like you sell the newest madonna album and knew how to do it because they sold the newest madonna album, knew how to make the drama necessary to promulgate it in the minds of america. they figured out that the best way to get the government to do the right thing was to become smarter than the government. to learn more about drugs than the doctors who were advising the public health officials and then to shame the federal government into doing the right thing. >> act up strategy has been enormously successful gettin...

200,000 gay rights activists, including buses filled with victims of aids, brought their campaign for equal rights brought their campaign to the nation's capitol today. >> how many must die for this administration to wake up? >> this huge march on washington, act up went there in force. we had a huge impact in the march. but then we were hearing about this project, this quilt project. >> this huge quilt that today is being spread out on the capitol mall in washington, as 2,000 panels, every one crafted by the friends and relatives of an aids victim. the memorial is the brain child of a san fra...

Kramer in new york city, and soon after chapters began to spring up around the country. >> the militant group act up gained increasing influence on aids policy. weekly meetings of the new york chapter attract hundreds, mostly young, mostly gay. >> i realized i only had a year or two more to live probably so why not go out with a bang. so i quit my job on wall street and became a full time activist. let's do a big demonstration there and keep it there. >> we had so many angry young men who had lost friends and were terrified they were going to die. >> pretty scared. but being hiv positive, i do...

Protest by aids activists in this country. 1,000 of them converging on national institutes of health, demanding more research on the disease. >> they started to become confrontational. signs up, you are killing us. why are you saying this, i am a physician, trying to save your lives. it was that kind of confrontation had me say time out. >> demonstrators blocked police cars, tried to break into the lead biomedical research agency. >> the police were about to arrest a whole bunch of them. i said don't arrest anybody, just bring them up to my office and let's start a dialogue. >> we were able to...

Comes out of there. >> as you just documented on camera, he stated wait until he [ bleep ] comes out of there so we'll have to take him out of the chair eventually. he still continues to make threats and [ bleep ] act up and violate the rules of the department. >> lieutenant medeiros has a problem with me. >> you tell him. >> he's a [ bleep ] [ bleep ]. >> with gomes safely restrained, deputies conduct a search of his cell, checking for weapons or other contraband. it isn't long before they find cause for concern. >> we discovered inmate gomes tied multiple shoelaces around his shower head. in...