Day of Hope: The Right to Revolt [Esperanza: El Derecho a Rebelarse]

Beth B., ed.

New York: B Productions, Inc., 1992. 12 x 16 in. Offset tabloid. 38 +38 pp. Text in Spanish and English, printed tête-bêche.

The bilingual one-off newspaper published by Beth B. in the style of the New York Post, featuring the work of artists and activists grappling with police violence, housing issues, drug safety and the AIDS epidemic in the early ‘90s.

The paper includes a heartwrenching interview with David Wojnarowicz shortly before his death, an essay by the Lower East Side activist Frank Morales about political prisoners in the United States, sex education and sex positive reporting by Annie Sprinkle and Tracy Quan, essays on reproductive health, work by Lydia Lunch and Diamanda Galas, and writing about drug safety, housing rights, and AIDS activism by the organizers themsleves - including the Lower East Side Needle Exchange, Housing Works, and Eviction Watch.

The publication was supported by, among others, the late Chinese American activist and photographer Corky Lee, as well as Nancy Spector and the Kitchen. A superb look at activism in New York in the early 1990s, centered around a network of queer organizers and artists.