Jay Blotcher

A Martyr for the Cause?

This photograph from 1991 depicts me holding the factsheet I created for the July, 1989, protest against The New York Times. That summer, ACT UP held a march and protest which challenged the Newspaper of Record for its chronic record of inaccurate and spotty AIDS coverage during the first years of the epidemic. Little did I know this act of civil disobedience would catch up to me 15 years later and cause the Times to dismiss me as a freelancer. (Credit: Bill Bytsura)