Conversation & Celebration

25th Anniversary of the ACT UP Oral History Project: A Celebration with Jim Hubbard and Sarah Schulman

Tue, Sep 15, 2026

6:00 PM–8:00 PM

Martin E. Segal Theatre, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave, NYC. Free and open to all. Register to attend.

Image from The ACT UP Oral History Project, an archive of 187 interviews with members of ACT UP, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, New York at www.actuporalhistory.org

Join our friends and collaborators CLAGS : The Center for LGBTQ Studies for “25th Anniversary of the ACT UP Oral History Project: A Celebration with Jim Hubbard and Sarah Schulman.” A quarter century ago, Jim Hubbard and Sarah Schulman realized that the legacy of ACT UP was fading due to the internet revolution and lack of digitized material. With the goal of creating an archive of uncensored testimony, in 2001 they began 18 years of work in collaboration with James Wentzy, in which 188 interviews were conducted. This material formed the basis of Jim’s film UNITED IN ANGER: A History of ACT UP and Sarah’s book LET THE RECORD SHOW: ACT UP, New York 1987-1993. Making all materials available for free at www.actuporalhistory.org, their website has had at least 14 million hits and over 700,000 transcripts have been downloaded. Jim and Sarah will be joined by CLAGS director Matt Brim, author of the teaching guide to UNITED IN ANGER for remembrances, analysis, gossip and reflection on how two friends created so many resources for the world.

This event organized and hosted by CLAGS : The Center for LGBTQ Studies and is cosponsored by the Center for the Humanities, the Center for Place, Culture and Politics, the Advanced Certificate in LGBTQ Studies, and the Barnard Center for Research on Women.