10 Facts About Peter Staley

Peter Staley was born in Sacramento, California, in 1961, the third of four children.

Peter Staley attended Oberlin College after first studying classical piano at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music for a semester.

Peter Staley majored in economics and government, spending his junior year abroad at the London School of Economics before graduating from Oberlin in 1983.

The next year, Peter Staley was a featured speaker at the Sixth International Conference on AIDS in 1990, held in San Francisco.

Peter Staley would be involved in many more demonstrations and protests, ultimately being arrested 10 times, although he does not have a criminal record due to the work of pro bono lawyers.

In 1991, Peter Staley founded an ACT UP activist affiliate called TAG.

Years later, Peter Staley would reveal that the stunt had been funded by David Geffen.

From 1991 to 2004, Peter Staley was on the board of amfAR.

Peter Staley is still with the merged organization as a blogger and advisory editor.

In 2004, Peter Staley funded and launched an ad campaign in New York, warning of the link between crystal meth use and HIV in gay and bisexual men.