“Autobiographically, the AIDS experience may be where I came to understand that it is a fundamental of individual integrity to intervene to stop another person from being victimized, even if to do so is uncomfortable or frightening. That the fear and the discomfort must be separated from the decision to act. Dear can be acknowledged, but fear cannot be the decisive factor. Fear must be separated from action in order for some reach towards justice to be maintained. ... Gentrification culture makes it very hard for people to intervene on behalf of others.... Gentrification culture is rooted in the ideology that people needing help is a "private" matter, that it is nobody's business. Taking their homes is called "cleaning" the neighborhood. ACT UP was the most recent American social movement to succeed, and it did so because AIDS activist culture of the 1980's was the opposite of gentrification culture: it held as its organizing principle that seronegative people had a responsibility to intervene, to join their energy with seropositive people's own enormous expenditure of energy so that they could have power over their own fate.”