Jim Eigo Honored by ACT UP at 30

Peter Staley, Jim Eigo, Andy Velez, Eric Sawyer, and (in front) Jay Blotcher. | DONNA ACETO

Peter Staley, Jim Eigo, Andy Velez, Eric Sawyer, and (in front) Jay Blotcher. | DONNA ACETO

PHOTO ESSAY BY DONNA ACETO | Marking 30 years of AIDS activism, ACT UP held a March 22 event to recognize the work of Jim Eigo, a founding member of the group’s Treatment and Data Committee, upon his retirement. Longtime ACT UP members Eric Sawyer, Andy Velez, Peter Staley, Jay Blotcher were among those on hand at Housing Works’ Keith D. Cylar House on East Ninth Street.

Jim Eigo. | DONNA ACETO

Jim Eigo. | DONNA ACETO

Eric Sawyer. | DONNA ACETO

Eric Sawyer. | DONNA ACETO

Andy Velez. | DONNA ACETO

Andy Velez. | DONNA ACETO