Ann Northrop
Actor · Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Ann Northrop is a journalist and activist, and the current co-host of TV news program Gay USA.
Movies3
Movie6.8DocumentaryHistoryA story of two coalitions – ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group) – whose activism and innovation turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable condition. Despite having no scientific training, these self-made activists infiltrated the pharmaceutical industry and helped identify promising new drugs, moving them from experimental trials to patients in record time.
How to Survive a Plague
2012 · 81 votes
- Movie4.0Documentary
As the struggle for gay rights continues to make new strides, internal debate threatens to undermine the cause. This documentary explores these divides within America's gay community and how they affect the way the movement is viewed by society. Interviews with prominent gay icons such as Kate Clinton, Harry Hay, Sarah Pettit, Michelangelo Signorile and Joan Nestle illustrate the diversity that exists within gay culture all across the country.
Pride Divide
1997 · 5 votes
Movie6.9DocumentaryHistoryUnited in Anger: A History of ACT UP is an inspiring documentary about the birth and life of the AIDS activist movement from the perspective of the people in the trenches fighting the epidemic. Utilizing oral histories of members of ACT UP, as well as rare archival footage, the film depicts the efforts of ACT UP as it battles corporate greed, social indifference, and government negligence.
United in Anger: A History of ACT UP
2012 · 9 votes