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Interviewing one protestor, Solomon argues that many ACT UPers, new to activism, envisioned demonstrations as a kind of role-playing: "I know how I'm supposed to look, what I'm supposed to wear—jeans and an ACT UP T-shirt—and how to do the chants and shake my fists," one young newcomer told me, "but it took me a long time until I felt like ... ................
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