Linda Gwen Grinberg (May 26, 1951 – May 27, 2002) was an American film librarian and HIV/AIDS activist, based in Los Angeles.
Linda Grinberg | |
|---|---|
| Born | Linda Gwen Grinberg May 26, 1951 Los Angeles, California |
| Died | May 27, 2002 Los Angeles, California |
| Other names | Linda G. Melnick |
| Occupation(s) | Film librarian, HIV/AIDS activist |
Early life and education
editGrinberg was born in Los Angeles, the daughter of film executive Sherman Grinberg and Edna Trachtenberg Grinberg.[1] She graduated from California State University, Northridge.[2]
Career
editGrinberg was CEO of the Sherman Grinberg Film Libraries,[3] "the world's largest independent film news and stock footage library".[4] She was a co-founder and vice-president of the International Documentary Association.[5][6]
Grinberg sold the film archive in the 1990s to focus her full-time attentions on HIV/AIDS activism and fundraising.[4] She served on the board of Project Inform, was founder of the Coalition for Salvage Therapy,[7] co-founder of the FAIR Pricing Coalition,[8] and founder and president of the Foundation for AIDS and Immune Research (FAIR).[9] She helped to lead a broad coalition of patients, activists, and medical practitioners, concerned for expediting new treatments for AIDS and ensuring access to experimental therapies,[10][11] especially for late-stage patients with limited prognoses.[12][13] "The side effects of AIDS [are] death," she told KQED about the urgency of her work. "We can gather data until hell freezes over, but we will be burying people daily. At a certain point we have to act."[14]
Grinberg was honored with the Project Inform Activism Award in 1996.[5]
Personal life
editGrinberg married journalist Philip Melnick in 1974; they divorced in 1981[15] Grinberg caught HIV in the 1980s,[16][17] and was diagnosed with AIDS in 1991. With access to new treatments, she lived far longer than her doctors expected.[18] She died at home in Los Angeles, from a heart attack related to her AIDS diagnosis and treatment,[19] in 2002, aged 51 years.[2][9]
References
edit- ^ Dee, Lynda (2002-09-01). "Tribute: Linda Grinberg". POZ. Retrieved 2022-06-06.
- ^ a b "Linda Grinberg, 51; Film Librarian and Activist Against AIDS". Los Angeles Times. May 30, 2002. p. 23. Retrieved June 6, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Kaufman, Bill (1985-04-07). "New Mileage from Old Footage". Newsday (Nassau Edition). p. 68. Retrieved 2022-06-06 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b "Linda Grinberg". WebMD. Retrieved 2022-06-06.
- ^ a b Guenette, Robert (2002-09-01). "Remembering Linda Grinberg: A Thoroughbred of Commitment, Compassion and Continual Optimism". International Documentary Association. Retrieved 2022-06-06.
- ^ Buzzell, Linda (2002-03-01). "The Origins of the IDA: Organization Founded to Promote, Support and Celebrate the Documentary". International Documentary Association. Retrieved 2022-06-07.
- ^ James, John S. (November 5, 1999). "Activism today: the Coalition for Salvage Therapy: Interview with Linda Grinberg". AIDS Treatment News (330): 2–4. ISSN 1052-4207. PMID 11367171.
- ^ "AAB Advocacy". AIDS Action Baltimore. Retrieved 2022-06-06.
- ^ a b Laird, Cynthia. "Memorial Set for Project Inform Board Member Linda Grinberg" Bay Area Reporter (August 1, 2002). via GLBT Historical Society, Online Searchable Obituary Database
- ^ Grinberg, Linda (September 1998). "What Price Efavirenz?". GMHC Treatment Issues – via The Body.
- ^ Grinberg, Linda; Torres, Gabriel (March 1999). "Lipodystrophy Update -- HAL in 2001: A Fat Oddity". GMHC Treatment Issues – via The Body.
- ^ Getty, Jeff (September 23, 1999). "Getting AIDS Drugs to Patients on Edge". Bay Area Reporter. p. 28. Retrieved June 6, 2022 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ Daemmrich, Arthur A. (2004). Pharmacopolitics : drug regulation in the United States and Germany. Internet Archive. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press. p. 107. ISBN 978-0-8078-2844-1 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ Sharp, Matthew (January 2, 1997). "A New Nuke: 1592U89". Bay Area Reporter. p. 21. Retrieved June 6, 2022 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ "Phil Melnick, Beachhead founder, dies". Free Venice Beachhead. Retrieved 2022-06-06.
- ^ Collins, Huntly; Vedantam, Shankar (1996-03-18). "A New Drug in the Race with Death". The Philadelphia Inquirer. pp. 1, 8. Retrieved 2022-06-06 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Driscoll, James (1996-07-07). "Private Sector Research Delivers". The Los Angeles Times. p. 181. Retrieved 2022-06-06 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Stone, Keith (1996-09-09). "AIDS Drugs Restoring Hope". The Daily Advertiser. p. 15. Retrieved 2022-06-06 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Gonsalves, Gregg. "AIDS activism's message in a bottle. (Last Word)." Research Initiative/Treatment Action!, vol. 8, no. 1, summer 2002, pp. 30+.
