Act-Up, other AIDS groups targeted for FBI surveillance. Federal Bureau of Investigations

Documents obtained by a civil rights group, the Center for Constitutional Rights, showed that the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) monitored the activities of Act-Up, Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC), the Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights, and Senior Action in a Gay Environment. Act-Up was the main target from 1988 through 1992, the years it staged its most conspicuous demonstrations against the Federal government's policy on AIDS. According to one of the documents, George Bush, then president, complained about Act-Up holding protests and tossing condoms outside his summer home in Maine in 1992. The documents showed that the organization posed little threat of harm.