“That free time is one of the biggest barriers to activism was, in a way, proven in the summer of 2020, as the protests over George Floyd and the slew of other Black lives lost became the most attended protests in American history. Up to twenty-six million Americans participated, a number that would be unthinkable were it not for the converging COVID-19 epidemic and the unprecedented amount of free time that accompanied it.” ActivismProtestAmerican HistoryBlack Lives MatterRiotBlmEpidemicLgbt Advocates Book:It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic Source: It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic