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Peter Staley: ACT UP and His Life in Activism

by Richard Nahem

With his boyish, good looks and a fierce determination to find a cure or a vaccine for the AIDS virus, Staley left his six-figure, Wall Street job to pursue activism full time.

5th International AIDS Conference in Montreal, June 4, 1989 (Photo by Philip Hannan)