<p>ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) was formed to protest the high cost and long approval process for AIDS drugs, which eventually resulted in the company producing AZT to lower its costs.&nbsp;</p>

<p>In 1987, six gay activists in New York formed the Silence = Death Project; the six men who created the project later joined the protest group ACT UP and offered the logo to the group, with which it remains closely identified. The pink triangle was established as a pro-gay symbol by activists in the United States during the 1970s; the symbol of the pink triangle, usually turned upright rather than inverted, was a conscious attempt to transform a symbol of humiliation into one of solidarity and resistance. By the outset of the AIDS epidemic, it was well-entrenched as a symbol of gay pride and liberation</p>

250 ACT UP members demonstrated here on March 24, 1987

7 ACT UP members infiltrated the NYSE and chained themselves to the VIP balcony on September 14, 1989

The beginning of the Silence=Death Project

ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) formed