Moving Politics excerpt
-ACT UP’s success can be partly contributed to its skillful harnessing of grief to anger and the usage of both emotions to spark actions
-Gould acknowledges that though deploying emotions as a tool in a social movement, they risk abandoning the richness and significance of the emotion
-ACT UP urges people to transform their grief into anger and use that anger as fuel for confrontational activism that forces public acknowledgement of the truth of AIDs
-Argues that the usage of anger and activism targeting state and society are “legitimate, justifiable, rational, and righteous”
-ACT UP’s use of political funerals offered “an emotional and political sensibility that acknowledged, evoked, endorsed and bolstered lesbians’ and gay men’s anger”
-By using creative interpretive work, direct-action AIDS activists reconstructed many lesbians’ and gay men’s understanding of the issue and redirected the public’s feelings about the crisis
