Andy and Me (It’s Not Real and It’s Not Fiction)

2021 ◽  
pp. 606-625
Author(s):  
Tom Kalin
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Public Works ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Madison Avenue ◽  
Act Up ◽  
And Gender ◽  
City Police

This chapter charts the influence of Andy Warhol on filmmaker Tom Kalin and provides an overview of Kalin’s films as well as his activism. From experimental videos such as They are lost to vision altogether (1989) to his features, Swoon (1992) and Savage Grace (2007), Kalin has drawn on Warhol’s cinematic language and bold sexual and gender politics. The chapter also depicts Kalin’s work with the activist collectives ACT UP and Gran Fury. Gran Fury formed to give voice to the political issues surrounding AIDS in America. This eleven-person collective devised appropriation strategies to simultaneously utilize and critique Madison Avenue vernaculars, and circumnavigate questions of access. Named for the automobile used by the New York City police (and also sounding like “big anger”), Gran Fury created public works that drew attention to medical, moral, and political issues related to AIDS.

scholarly journals Global South Perspectives on Stonewall after 50 Years, Part II—Brazilian Stonewalls: Radical Politics and Lesbian Activism

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 685-703
Author(s):  
Flávia Belmont ◽  
Amanda Álvares Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
The Political ◽  
Radical Politics ◽  
Military Dictatorship ◽  
Queer Politics ◽  
One Year ◽  
Police Raid ◽  
City Police

Abstract The riots against a New York City police raid at the Stonewall Inn bar in June, 1969, are often identified as having sparked the movement for LGBT rights, and the commemoration of the riots one year later in June, 1970, inaugurated a series of annual LGBT Pride events that continues to this day worldwide. In this two-part Forum, we reflect on the contradictory effects of Stonewall’s international legacy. In this second part of the Forum, Ferreira and Belmont investigate the ways in which ‘Stonewall’ has been appropriated specifically in Brazil, both during the civil-military dictatorship and in the current fraught political moment. Belmont locates current mismatches between LGBT and queer struggles in Brazil by juxtaposing more mainstream visions of LGBT politics with the margins they create, especially the marginalization of travestis. Belmont exposes the way that dominant LGBT discourse and practices reinforce the continuous violence over dissident bodies and proposes that we look at travestis’ experiences and arguments as necessary contributions to a more radical (queer) politics. In the final contribution, Ferreira recapitulates the political demands of NYC’s Stonewall events and contrast them to the revolutionary claims of what was called a ‘Brazilian Stonewall.’ Considering the protagonism of lesbian movements in such events in Brazil, her contribution analyzes, from a queer perspective, the embrace of a multiplicity of identifications in contemporary lesbian activism. She argues that this move creates potentialities for responding to structural violences, while also speaking to questions such as the judicialization and commercialization of LGBTTI causes and homonormativity.

scholarly journals Politisierung der Kunst

1997 ◽  
Vol 27 (109) ◽  
pp. 649-680
Author(s):  
Lutz Hieber
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
York City ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Movement ◽  
Cultural Conditions ◽  
Place Of Origin ◽  
Act Up

AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP) was the most significant and forceful political movement in USA throughout the last decade. Its achievements are closely linked to the cultural conditions of its place of origin: the artistic Avantgarde in New York City. ACT UP's concepts and starting points will be introduced. The discussion of this movement will also be used to throw a critical light on the political culture ofthe FRG.

Abstract 3750: Prevalence of Coronary Artery Disease in New York City Police Officers as Predicted by Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring

Circulation ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 116 (suppl_16) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jia Lin See ◽  
Nikolas Wanahita ◽  
Nir N Somekh ◽  
Stephen E Nelson ◽  
Albert Barrette ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Coronary Artery Disease ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Coronary Artery ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
York City ◽  
Early Exposure ◽  
Gender And Age ◽  
Artery Disease ◽  
City Police

Background: Recent studies in police officers and firefighters have shown that physically taxing and psychologically stressful occupations may increase death from coronary artery disease (CAD). The aim of this study was to determine if there is an increased prevalence of CAD among members of the New York City Police Department (NYPD). Methods: A total of 2,068 NYPD police officers and detectives underwent electron beam computed tomography for quantitation of coronary artery calcium (CAC) using the Agatston scoring method. The CAC score is known to correlate with the extent and severity of CAD and is predictive of adverse cardiovascular events. The CAC scores were compared with a gender- and age-specific database developed by Hoff et al (also known as the Kondos database). Patients with CAC scores > 400 and those whose scores fall within the upper quartile for gender and age are generally considered to be at increased risk of adverse events. Results: Participants’ mean age was 42 ± 6 years and 86% were male. More than 50% of males < 65 and females < 60 years of age had scores below the 50 th percentile for their age group (Tables ). A subset of 75 individuals (mean age 41 ± 6; 88% male) with known early exposure to the World Trade Center (WTC) collapse were evaluated; they did not have increased CAC scores (data not shown). Conclusion: There is not an increased prevalence of CAD among members of the NYPD compared to the general population as assessed with CAC quantitation. Early exposure to the WTC collapse does not appear to increase the risk of premature CAD at five years.

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