vintage mural ads & other signage by Frank H. Jump & friends
Greg Bordowitz interviews Frank Jump in ACT-UP Gay Pride Concentration Camp Float - a response to William F. Buckley Jr's HIV Tattoo Proposal
Lea Delaria & Frank Jump (co- emcees) at an Albany LGBT event in 1988 - Tom Stoddard in background to the left.
Eric Sawyer & Frank Jump with Mark Fotopoulos (Andy Humm in background)
Eric Sawyer, Willy Jump & Frank Jump @ NYC Gay Pride March 1988
Frank Jump & Eric Sawyer
Phil Reed at ACT-UP Stop the Church Demonstration @ St Patrick's Cathedral
© Frank H. Jump
Anne Pope: Frank Jump and I have been friends – and sometimes collaborators – since 1988. When I first thought about doing a StoryCorps session, he was the first person I wanted to interview.
Everybody’s story matters. Every life counts. Help us reach out to record our history, hopes, and common humanity—and illuminate the true character of this nation. StoryCorps.net
Lilywhite Lies © Frank H. Jump 1987 – (lyrics) aired on WBAI and became theme song for an AIDS Awareness program hosted by James Toms.
Wallace Shawn reads from Vito Russo’s Celluloid Closet
Memorial Day has always been a bittersweet holiday for me. I don’t know many veterans since many of my friends are gay or lesbian and cannot openly serve in the military. The only legitimate and significant war I have personally experienced been the War Against AIDS. From this day forward, Memorial Day will be a day I will remember those I’ve lost in this war and I invite everyone else to join me.
Sitting and trying to think of the countless people I have encountered in my life who have died from this still stigmatizing disease is a daunting task. Above are some of the names of friends and acquaintances who have touched our lives (Vincenzo and myself) in some way. [I’ve gotten up out of bed and updated the list twice already. I don’t think this is a realistic task for one day.]
This April I have been HIV+ for 24 years – half of my life. Through the years I have begun to have days when I think of the disease only perhaps once or twice a day, but not a single day goes by that I’m not reminded of my mortality at least once – probably due to my adherence to my meds. Then I remember those I’ve lost. I encourage people to share names of their loved ones who have died of AIDS- reminding America of the indignities and indifference they had experienced.
Image citings:
Silence = Death & AIDSGATE – Gran Fury
David Wojnarowicz
Vito Russo
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