Michael Petrelis

Quick Facts

Full Name	Michael Petrelis
Occupation	Lgbt Rights Activist
Date Of Birth	Jan 26, 1959(1959-01-26)
Age	65
Country	United States
Birth City	Newark
Horoscope	Capricorn

Michael Petrelis Biography

Michael Petrelis is one of the most popular and richest Lgbt Rights Activist who was born on January 26, 1959 in Newark, United States. Born January 26, 1959, Michael Anthony Petrelis is an American AIDS activist, LGBTQ rights activist and blogger. In 1985, he was diagnosed with Acquired Immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). He was a founding member of the Lavender Hill Mob which was a precursor to the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, and among the first AIDS activists to demonstrate against the disease’s treatment. He was a cofounder of ACT UP New York City, New York. Later, he helped to organize ACT UP chapters throughout Oregon, Washington, D.C. and New Hampshire. Petrelis was also a founder member of Queer Nation/National Capital in Washington D.C., the militant LGBTQ rights group.

Petrelis was discharged from the hospital on the afternoon of August 26, 1985. Hennessey gave the results of the biopsy. The lesion was Kaposi’s Sarcoma, which is an opportunistic infective. Petrelis was informed by Hennessey that he had AIDS, and that he would be getting more opportunistic infections. He was given a terminal prognosis, with only six months to one year left to live. Henley advised him that he visit the Gay Men’s Health Crisis, (GMHC), as soon as possible. He also suggested that he draft a will and seek out a doctor.

Named Bailey House in honor of the Reverend Mead Miner Bailey, one of ARC’s founders, the facility finally opened on December 10, 1986. Petrelis was among its first residents.

Frustrated with what Bahlman called the “timid sort of nature” of GLAAD’s and CLGR’s tactics in the face of the AIDS crisis, Robinson and Noro determined that they needed to start a new group. In the late summer of 1986, in the wake of the Supreme Court of the United States’ ruling in Bowers v. Hardwick, they began meeting with a small group of friends at Bahlman’s apartment. In addition to Robinson, Noro, and Bahlman, early participants included Henry Yaeger Jean Elizabeth Glass Eric Perez, and Petrelis. The group would come to call itself the Lavender Hill Mob, after a well-known comic British film — a title they believed captured the personality of the group and its actions: gay, confrontational, creative, and humorous.

Petrelis moved from Germany to New York in 1981. He reconnected with a couple of men he had met during his teenage visits to New York. Petrelis lost one of his friends to the disease later to be called acquired immunodeficiency disorder (AIDS).

Michael Petrelis Net Worth

Michael Petrelis is one of the richest Lgbt Rights Activist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Michael Petrelis 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Robinson, who Petrelis recalled meeting as a chance encounter one night in New York City’s Lesbian, Gay, Transgender & Bisexual Community Center on West 13th Street, while they waited for a GLAAD meeting, was a veteran activist. He was active in the Mattachine Society in the 1960s, which was one of the first homophile groups in America. When officers from New York City Police Department raided the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village on June 28, 1969 and started the Stonewall riots of 1969, he was there. He was also a featured speaker at Sheridan Square’s subsequent rally attended by over two thousand. He co-founded the Gay Activist Alliance in the wake of the Stonewall riots. It was here that he developed the zap, a protest technique that would be a key component of ACT UP’s strategy.

Petrelis was an openly gay student at East Orange High School in New Jersey. Petrelis recalls being a teenager and first getting involved in the gay community by going to New York City’s Greenwich Village. Petrelis found he could make a living as a sex worker in the city and began to engage in “lots of unsafe sex.” He graduated from high school in 1977 and spent the summer hitchhiking the United States to San Francisco. There he stayed for three more years.

Through the early months and spring of 1985, Petrelis suffered from a persistent illness that one doctor diagnosed as influenza; by that summer, he had developed a “bump” on his arm and was referred to a dermatologist at New York University (NYU) Hospital. At first, Petrelis balked; earning his living as a temporary office worker, he had neither insurance nor money to pay a dermatologist. Urged by the referring physician, he relented.

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Petrelis returned to New York City a year later, where he was one of 111 protesters arrested at the Stop the Church demonstration at St. Patrick’s Cathedral on December 11, 1989. The demonstration was among ACT Up’s most controversial, but Petrelis almost didn’t participate; none of the other activists wanted to include him in their affinity groups for that demonstration because, he recalled, “People felt I was too angry.” Petrelis said he nonetheless felt driven to go and changed his mind. Arriving early before the police had established barricades, Petrelis was able to enter the church, and sit on the aisle in the middle of the cathedral. As other protesters stage silent die-ins, or calmly read prepared statements, Petrelis stood on the pew and screamed, “O’Connor, you’re killing us! You’re killing us, just stop it! Just stop it!” Before officers removed him from the cathedral, Petrelis screamed, “We will not be silent. We will fight O’Connor’s bigotry.”

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Michael Ranked on the list of most popular Lgbt Rights Activist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Michael Petrelis celebrates birthday on January 26 of every year.

On May 26, 1990, Petrelis held a press conference with Carl Goodman on the west steps of the United States Capitol to read the names of eleven officials, including eight members of congress and one entertainment executive who, the activists claimed, were secretly homosexual. A number of reporters attended the press conference, and some wrote about it, but none published the names. Petrelis would later recall he had been “emboldened” to organize the press conference by an article in the San Francisco Examiner which attributed the prediction of a “national outing day” to writer Arthur Evans. One of the individuals Petrelis and Goodman named was Mark Hatfield, a Republican Senator from Oregon whom Petrelis had first helped expose as secretly homosexual in February 1989, part of the first political outing of an elected official by American activists.