Patrick Moore
Background: Patrick is a 26 year old white gay man from Cherokee, Iowa, though part of his teenage years was spent in remote Perrault Falls, Canada. He went to college at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh to their undergraduate theater directing program, then moved to New York with his lover Dino in 1985. Patrick was the PR director of The Kitchen, a multidisciplinary experimental arts organization. Patrick met Maria Maggenti while working at The Kitchen, and she brought him to ACT UP. Patrick enlisted Gran Fury, a group within ACT UP responsible for much of ACT UP’s graphic design and art campaigns, to design a poster/calendar for The Kitchen that said, “With 42,000 dead, art is no longer enough. Take direct collective action to end the AIDS crisis.” This caused tension at The Kitchen, as some of their artists (who were likely supportive of the sentiment) did not feel consulted on a statement with which they were associated. This ultimately led to Patrick recently leaving The Kitchen. Patrick and Dino do not know their HIV statuses, and though they are purportedly in a monogamous relationship they are both having sex outside the relationship. Dino is not involved in ACT UP.
Groups/friends at the meeting: Seeing Red, Maria Maggenti (who he knows from The Kitchen)
Specific tasks at the March 13, 1989 meeting: Seeing Red is on the agenda, during the Target City Hall report, to ask the floor for approval to use the ACT UP logo on their posters for Target City Hall.
Additional information: https://actuporalhistory.org/numerical-interviews/006-patrick-moore
https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-patrick-moore-17457