ACT UP San Francisco letter

A letter from ACT UP San Francisco, an AIDS activist group, supporting Victoria Schneider's lawsuit against the city. They say she was brutally mistreated by city employees and that this is part of a bigger problem. Sex workers are regularly harassed, disrespected, and even HIV tested without their permission by law enforcement. They demand the officers involved be fired and held accountable, and that the city pay Victoria Schneider to settle the case quickly instead of wasting money on a long court battle. At this point in its history, ACT UP San Francisco was no longer regarded as a mainstream advocacy group, having broken with the medical consensus that HIV caused AIDS. This item comes from the Victoria Schneider papers at the GLBT Historical Society. Schneider is an intersex activist and former sex worker best known for her 1997 lawsuit against the City and County of San Francisco, concerning an unlawful strip search during her booking at the San Francisco County Jail.

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Identifier: vq27zn91p
Collection: Victoria Schneider Papers
Institution: GLBT Historical Society
Creator(s): Swindell, Todd
Date Created: Feb. 27, 1998
Genre: Correspondence
Subject(s): ACT UP San Francisco
Hajime Tada
Victoria Schneider
Places: California > San Francisco County > San Francisco
Topic(s): HIV/AIDS
Intersex people
Law
LGBTQ+ civil rights
LGBTQ+ sex workers
Police harassment of LGBTQ+ people
Police violence toward LGBTQ+ people
Resource Type: Text
Language: English
Rights: In copyright
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