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379:. Several protesters later recalled his charisma before and during the demonstration, including speaking from a balcony and expressing solidarity with the Women's Caucus, on behalf of the People of Color Caucus. Because there were not enough jail cells, the arrested protesters were initially held in a large room, where Alderson periodically incited them to stage a "kiss-in". 352:
In November 1988, Commissioner Joseph attended a forum at the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center, which "devolved into a rancorous confrontation". According to ACT UP activist Ron Goldberg, Alderson brought the forum to a "welcome end" when he "stood up and asked the commissioner whether it
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and poverty. Together with Robert Vazquez-Pacheco and Robert Garcia, Alderson established the Majority Action Committee (MAC), so named to remind the broader group that the majority of HIV and AIDS cases in the city were people of color. Respected as a "radical elder" and "militant queen" who was
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Alderson and activist Dan Keith Williams represented ACT UP at the National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS (NBLCA), which was led by Debra Frazer-Howe. According to Williams, their first meeting with NBLCA in 1987 was confrontational, leading to accusations that they were "sent by the white
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After the Pontiac Four failed to appear for trial on November 16, their bonds were forfeited. On November 25, they surrendered to the FBI in Chicago, and subsequently pleaded guilty to two counts, including damaging federal property and removing draft files. Alderson spent three months in Peoria
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Alderson was involved in ACT UP's high-profile confrontations with New York City Health Commissioner Stephen Joseph. In the summer of 1988, he was arrested along with other activists who entered the Department of Health building, representing themselves as the MHA or "Metropolitan Health
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Following his release from prison, he became a leader in the Third World Gay Revolution. In November 1971, on the first anniversary of the shooting death of James Clay, Jr., a 24-year-old African American man dressed as a woman, by Chicago police officers, Alderson led a march on the
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and AIDS. Regarded as a "radical elder" within ACT UP, he was involved in organizing numerous demonstrations in the fight for access to healthcare and treatments for people with AIDS, and participated in the group's meetings with NYC Health Commissioner Stephen Joseph as well as the
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Association", and demanding a meeting with Joseph. In a subsequent meeting between ACT UP and Joseph on September 15, 1988, Alderson took turns with Jim Eigo and Margaret McCarthy in pointing out problems with the City's "patchwork epidemiology" in underestimating the number of
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In 2016, his image was featured in a large photomural at the Art AIDS Exhibition in Chicago. The photograph, titled "Stephen Cradling Ortez's Head", shows Alderson grasping a sign saying healthcare is a right and wearing a t-shirt that reads, "We Die – They Do Nothing".
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newspaper reported that Alderson believed he had been released earlier than the other three members of the Pontiac Four because of his attempts to organize gay prisoners, in "one of only two prison gay liberation chapters in the country".
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Alderson was in a long-term relationship with activist Arthur Gursch. He and Gursch first met in 1970 as part of the Gay Liberation Front. They both lived in New York in the 1980s and returned to Chicago together in 1989.
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later noted the tension in Alderson's article between his condemnation of "what he termed the 'pigs mentality' of the American government" and his critique of "its hypocrisy for extolling the virtues of the
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In 1969, at the age of 17, Alderson joined the Chicago Gay Liberation Front, and was co-founder and chairman of the organization's Black Caucus, which later became the Third World Gay Revolution.
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as "a comedy-drama about a racially mixed cast assembled to perform in an awful 'anti-lynching' play." Alderson was recognized as one of the few "bright spots" in the actual cast. He was also in
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In February 1989, Alderson and ten other ACT UP activists were taken to court by Stephen Joseph, and were sentenced to community service after they were found guilty of criminal trespassing.
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in Philadelphia, helping to "mobilize the queer presence" for a workshop on gay rights. The workshop was attended by hundreds of black, white, and Puerto Rican gay men. In October 24, 1970,
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In 1981, Alderson moved to New York City, where he continued to pursue his theater career, acting and directing plays. He worked in black gay theater with playwright and performance artist
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newsletter in New York City published an editorial by Alderson, "The 'disease' fights back", referring to homosexuality, as the front page story in its sixth issue. An analysis in the
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Film footage of Alderson speaking during a 1987 ACT UP meeting in New York, as well as footage of the 1992 Ashes action, appeared briefly in the Oscar-nominated documentary film,
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in San Francisco, after which his health rapidly declined. According to Assotto Saint, Alderson continued to demonstrate until the end, "when he could barely walk and talk".
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in his memory. He also helped to organize the Transvestites Legal Committee, the first transgender political organization in Chicago.
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always willing to get arrested, Alderson was involved in organizing numerous demonstrations and actions, including sit-ins.
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Four" who were arrested on July 29, 1970, for vandalizing the Livingston County Draft Office and destroying files related to
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and AIDS Conference the following year. He died of complications from AIDS in 1990, and was inducted posthumously into the
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On December 21, 1990, Alderson died of complications from AIDS. In 1991, he was inducted posthumously as a member of the
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In the 1970s, he studied acting and appeared in numerous theater productions, including the Chicago Black Ensemble's
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in New York, he worked at the National AIDS Hotline Office in Manhattan. In 1987, Alderson was a founding member of
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On April 23, 1990, Alderson was one of 150 AIDS activists arrested in Chicago during a national ACT UP action for
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to investigate its own underreporting of epidemiological data", causing Joseph to storm out of the meeting.
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wasn't 'the essence of corruption' for the Department of Health to accept a $ 500,000 grant from the
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as "A strong, touching play about a joyless Christmas Eve in a home for disturbed children."
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In March 1989, Alderson returned to Chicago. Soon afterwards, he was hospitalized with
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in New York City, and helped to establish its Majority Action Committee representing
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On October 13, 1987, he was one of 800 protesters arrested at a mass sit-in at the
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while simultaneously seeking to repress homosexuals' own 'pursuit of happiness'."
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On October 11, 1992, Gursch emptied a bag containing Alderson's ashes onto the
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On October 5, 1988, Alderson represented ACT UP New York in a meeting with the
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second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights
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In June 1990, Alderson participated in demonstrations at the
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County Jail, and was sent to the Federal Youth Center in
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boys". Alderson and Williams also fought to convince
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at the San Francisco Repertory Company, described by
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Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention at
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Index

AIDS
gay rights
anti-war
LGBT community
draft for the Vietnam War
ACT UP
people of color with HIV
FDA
People of Color
Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame
Buffalo, New York
Chicago's South Side
riots sparked by the assassination of Martin Luther King
Cook County Jail
Vietnam War
Pontiac
the draft
Black Panthers
Temple University
Journal of the History of Sexuality
Declaration of Independence
Ashland, Kentucky
Gay Pride Day
halfway house
Rising Up Angry
18th District police station
Chicago Tribune
Assotto Saint
ACT UP
people of color

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