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- LATT CSTHE HISTORY OF THE QUILTTHE NATNAL AIDS MEMORIALAIDS MEMORIAL QUILTACTIVIST BEGNGSTHE QUILT WAS NCEIVED NOVEMBER OF 1985 BY LONG-TIME HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST, THOR AND LECTURER CLEVE JON. SCE THE 1978 ASSASSATNS OF GAY SAN FRANCIS SUPERVISOR HARVEY MILK AND MAYOR GEE MOSNE, JON HAD HELPED ANIZE THE ANNUAL NDLELIGHT MARCH HONORG THE MEN. WHILE PLANNG THE 1985 MARCH, HE LEARNED THAT OVER 1,000 SAN FRANCISNS HAD BEEN LOST TO AIDS. HE ASKED EACH OF HIS FELLOW MARCHERS TO WRE ON PLARDS THE NAM OF IENDS AND LOVED ON WHO HAD DIED OF AIDS. AT THE END OF THE MARCH, JON AND OTHERS STOOD ON LADRS TAPG THE PLARDS TO THE WALLS OF THE SAN FRANCIS FERAL BUILDG. THE WALL OF NAM LOOKED LIKE A PATCHWORK QUILT.INSPIRED BY THIS SIGHT, JON AND IENDS MA PLANS FOR A LARGER MEMORIAL. A LTLE OVER A YEAR LATER, A SMALL GROUP OF STRANGERS GATHERED A SAN FRANCIS STOREONT TO DOCUMENT THE LIV THEY FEARED HISTORY WOULD NEGLECT. THEIR GOAL WAS TO CREATE A MEMORIAL FOR THOSE WHO HAD DIED OF AIDS, AND TO THEREBY HELP PEOPLE UNRSTAND THE VASTATG IMPACT OF THE DISEASE. THIS MEETG OF VOTED IENDS AND LOVERS SERVED AS THE FOUNDATN OF THE NAMES PROJECT AIDS MEMORIAL QUILT.CLEVE CREATED THE FIRST PANEL FOR THE AIDS MEMORIAL QUILT MEMORY OF HIS IEND MARV FELDMAN. IN JUNE OF 1987, JON TEAMED UP WH MIKE SMH, GERT MCMULL AND SEVERAL OTHERS TO FORMALLY ANIZE THE NAMES PROJECT FOUNDATN.PUBLIC RPONSE TO THE QUILT WAS IMMEDIATE. PEOPLE THE U.S. CI MOST AFFECTED BY AIDS — ATLANTA, NEW YORK, LOS ANGEL AND SAN FRANCIS — SENT PANELS TO THE SAN FRANCIS WORKSHOP. GENERO DONORS RAPIDLY SUPPLIED SEWG MACH, EQUIPMENT AND OTHER MATERIALS, AND MANY VOLUNTEERED TIRELSLY.THE INGURAL DISPLAYON OCTOBER 11, 1987, THE QUILT WAS DISPLAYED FOR THE FIRST TIME ON THE NATNAL MALL WASHGTON, D.C., DURG THE NATNAL MARCH ON WASHGTON FOR LBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS. IT VERED A SPACE LARGER THAN A FOOTBALL FIELD AND CLUD 1,920 PANELS. SIX TEAMS OF EIGHT VOLUNTEERS CEREMONIALLY UNFOLD THE QUILT SECTNS AT SUNRISE AS CELEBRI, POLICIANS, FAI, LOVERS AND IENDS READ ALOUD THE 1,920 NAM OF THE PEOPLE REPRENTED QUILT. THE READG OF NAM IS NOW A TRADN FOLLOWED AT NEARLY EVERY QUILT DISPLAY. HALF A LN PEOPLE VISED THE QUILT THAT WEEKEND.THE OVERWHELMG RPONSE TO THE QUILT’S GURAL DISPLAY LED TO A FOUR-MONTH, 20-CY, NATNAL TOUR FOR THE QUILT THE SPRG AND SUMMER OF 1988. THE TOUR RAISED NEARLY $500,000 FOR HUNDREDS OF AIDS SERVICE ANIZATNS. MORE THAN 9,000 VOLUNTEERS ACROSS THE UNTRY HELPED THE SEVEN-PERSON TRAVELG CREW MOVE AND DISPLAY THE QUILT. LOL PANELS WERE ADD EACH CY, TRIPLG THE QUILT’S SIZE TO MORE THAN 6,000 PANELS BY THE END OF THE TOUR.THE QUILT GROWSTHE QUILT RETURNED TO WASHGTON, D.C. OCTOBER OF 1988, WHEN 8,288 PANELS WERE DISPLAYED ON THE ELLIPSE ONT OF THE WHE HOE.WH A SMALL SEED GRANT OM THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATN, QUILT ANIZERS TRAVELLED TO EIGHT UNTRI TO MARK THE FIRST WORLD AIDS DAY ON DECEMBER 1, 1988 WH SIMULTANEO DISPLAYS BROADST OM SIX NTENTS. THROUGHOUT 1989, MORE THAN 20 UNTRI LNCHED SIAR MEMORATIVE PROJECTS BASED ON THE QUILT. CLEVE JON, MIKE SMH AND THE NAMES PROJECT FOUNDATN WERE NOMATED FOR THE 1989 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE REGNN OF THE GLOBAL IMPACT OF THE QUILT.IN 1989 A SEND TOUR OF NORTH AMERI BROUGHT THE QUILT TO 19 ADDNAL CI THE UNED STAT AND CANADA. THAT TOUR AND OTHER 1989 DISPLAYS RAISED NEARLY A QUARTER OF A LN DOLLARS FOR AIDS SERVICE ANIZATNS. IN OCTOBER OF THAT YEAR, THE QUILT (NOW MORE THAN 12,000 PANELS SIZE) WAS AGA DISPLAYED ON THE ELLIPSE WASHGTON, D.C. HBO RELEASED THEIR DOCUMENTARY FILM ON THE QUILT, COMMON THREADS: STORI OM THE QUILT, WHICH BROUGHT THE QUILT’S MSAGE TO LNS OF MOVIE-GOERS. THE FILM WON THE AMY AWARD FOR BT DOCUMENTARY OF 1989.BY 1992, THE AIDS MEMORIAL QUILT CLUD PANELS OM EVERY STATE AND 28 UNTRI. IN OCTOBER 1992, THE ENTIRE QUILT RETURNED TO THE NATNAL MALL WASHGTON, D.C. IN JANUARY 1993, THE NAMES PROJECT WAS VED TO MARCH PRINT CLTON’S GURAL PARA WHERE OVER 200 VOLUNTEERS RRIED QUILT PANELS DOWN PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.THE LAST DISPLAY OF THE ENTIRE AIDS MEMORIAL QUILT WAS OCTOBER OF 1996 WHEN THE QUILT VERED THE ENTIRE NATNAL MALL WASHGTON, D.C. WH AN TIMATED 1.2 LN PEOPLE G TO VIEW . THE CLTONS AND GOR ATTEND THE DISPLAY, MARKG THE FIRST VIS BY A STG PRINT OF THE UNED STAT. THE QUILT MOVES TO ATLANTAIN 2000, THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE NAMES PROJECT ELECTED TO MOVE THE FOUNDATN’S NATNAL HEADQUARTERS OM SAN FRANCIS TO ATLANTA. THE CROSS-UNTRY MOVE WAS MA TO ADDRS THE CHANGG FACE OF HIV/AIDS AND GROW THE FOUNDATN’S PARTNERSHIPS, PROGRAMS AND FANCIAL ROURC.IN 2004, MORE THAN 8,000 OF THE NEWT PANELS THAT HAD BEEN RECEIVED AT OR SCE OCTOBER 1996 DISPLAY WERE SHOWN ON THE ECLIPSE WASHGTON, D.C. OBSERVANCE OF NATNAL HIV TTG DAY.IN 2012, AS PART OF THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE NAMES PROJECT FOUNDATN, THE QUILT RETURNED TO WASHGTON, DC AS PART OF A LLABORATN WH THE SMHSONIAN MM’S AMERIN FOLKLIFE FTIVAL, WHERE THE ENTIRE QUILT WAS DISPLAYED ON THE NATNAL MALL OVER THE URSE OF A TWO-WEEK PERD WH 1,500 BLOCKS OF PANELS BEG DISPLAYED EACH DAY. GIVEN THE SIZE OF THE QUILT, IS NOW TOO LARGE TO BE DISPLAYED ALL AT ONCE ON THE MALL. THE INTERNATNAL AIDS CONFERENCE WAS HELD WASHGTON DC IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWG THE DISPLAY, WHICH THE QUILT WAS A MAJOR FEATURE, WH DISPLAYS MORE THAN 60 LOTNS THROUGHOUT THE D.C. METRO AREA.IN 2013, AS PART OF ONGOG AWARENS AND TNAL EFFORTS, A SPECIAL QUILT PROGRAM, CALL MY NAME, WAS CREATED TO DRAW ATTENTN TO HIV/AIDS THE BLACK MUNY AND THE PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS THAT STILL EXISTS TODAY. THE PROGRAM AIMS TO CREATE A GREATER NUMBER OF QUILT PANELS THAT REFLECT THE IMPACT OF HIV/AIDS WH THE BLACK MUNY AND THE EFFECT STIGMA AND PREJUDICE HAVE ON CREASED FECTN RAT. A NATNAL TOUR FOLLOWED THAT CLUD HOSTG PANEL-MAKG WORKSHOPS ANIZED BY BLACK CHURCH AND MUNY GROUPS TO MAKE PANELS AND RAISER GREATER AWARENS OF ON THE HIV/AIDS CRISIS THE AIN AMERIN MUNY. YOU N SEE SOME OF THE STORI OM QUILT PANELS MA HONORG BLACK LIV LOST TO AIDS AS PART OF A POWERFUL ONLE EXHIBN OF THE QUILT DURG BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2020.ENSURG THE QUILT’S LEGACYIN NOVEMBER 2019, THE NATNAL AIDS MEMORIAL BEME THE PERMANENT RETAKER AND STEWARD OF THE QUILT, RETURNG TO SAN FRANCIS, WHERE S STORY BEGAN DURG THE HEIGHT OF THE AIDS EPIMIC. AT THAT TIME, THE QUILT’S ARCHIVAL LLECTN OF 200,000 OBJECTS, DOCUMENTS, RDS AND LETTERS THAT CHRONICLE THE LIV REMEMBERED WERE TRANSFERRED TO THE PRTIG AMERIN FOLKLIFE CENTER AT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRS, MAKG THIS LLECTN AVAILABLE THROUGH THE WORLD’S LARGT PUBLIC LIBRARY. THIS ANNOUNCEMENT, MA AT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRS WASHGTON, DC, FEATURED SPECIAL GUTS HOE SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI, AND REPRENTATIV JOHN LEWIS AND BARBARA LEE, WHO REGNIZED THE QUILT AS A NATNAL TREASURE THAT MT BE PRERVED FOR S ABILY TO TEACH FOR GENERATNS TO E. SEE THE NEWS RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT AND WATCH THE HISTORY ANNOUNCEMENT. “THIS IS THE CULMATN OF S OF WORK THAT ACHIEV A VISN LONG HELD BY THE NAMES PROJECT LEARSHIP WHO, ARMED WH AN UNWAVERG MMENT TO THE QUILT, WERE TERMED TO SEE THAT THE AIDS MEMORIAL QUILT WOULD STAND THE TT OF TIME,” SAID JULIE RHOAD, PRINT & CEO, THE NAMES PROJECT FOUNDATN. “WH THIS SET OF NEW RETAKERS, WE ARE NFINT THAT THE LEGACY OF THE QUILT AND THE NAMES PROJECT IS SECURE.”THE TASK OF MOVG THE 54-TON QUILT AND S NEARLY 50,000 PANELS WAS MONUMENTAL, WH THE FIRST PANELS ARRIVG EARLY 2020 SAN FRANCIS. THE NATNAL AIDS MEMORIAL RECEIVED A $2.4 LN GRANT OM GILEAD SCIENC TO PROVI CRIL ROURC NEED FOR THE RELOTN. SHARING THE QUILT ONLINETHROUGH A 20-YEAR PARTNERSHIP WH AIDS QUILT TOUCH, THE QUILT N BE SEEN S ENTIRETY AND THE PANELS MA HONOR OF LOVED ON SEEN ONLE AS PART OF THE INTERACTIVE AIDS QUILT SO LNS OF PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD N EXPERIENCE ’S POWERFUL STORI. IN 2020, DURG THE HEIGHT OF THE COVID-19 PANMIC AND SHELTER PLACE GUIL, THE NATNAL AIDS MEMORIAL LNCHED A FIRST-EVER 50 STATE VIRTUAL EXHIBN OF THE QUILT, BRGG THE POWER AND BETY OF THE QUILT TO MUNI ACROSS THE NATN AND WORLD TO HELP WH THE HEALG PROCS AND LOSS PEOPLE WERE FACG THE WAKE OF ANOTHER VASTATG PANMIC.“DURG THE DARKT DAYS OF THE AIDS CRISIS, THE QUILT WAS A SOURCE OF IMMENSE FORT, SPIRATN AND ED AS A TOOL FOR SOCIAL ACTIVISM TO OPEN THE EY OF THE NATN TO JTICE AND TO HELP SURVIVORS GRIEVE AND HEAL,” SAID NATNAL AIDS MEMORIAL CEO JOHN CUNNGHAM. “BRGG THE QUILT VIRTUALLY WE HOPE S POWER AND BETY N SERVE THAT SAME PURPOSE FOR THOSE WHO ARE EXPERIENCG LOSS AND GRIEF DUE TO COVID-19."ADDNAL VIRTUAL EXHIBNS WERE ADD 2021 TO HONOR BLACK LIV LOST TO AIDS FOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH AND NATIVE LIV LOST TO AIDS FOR NATNAL NATIVE HIV/AIDS AWARENS DAY. THE DISPLAYS ALSO SHARED PERSONAL STORI AND ARCHIVED LETTERS AND PHOTOS TO TELL THE STORI BEHD THE BETY OF THE QUILT. THE QUILT NTU TO SPIRE AND BE ON THE FOREONT OF NEWS, A TEACHG TOOL AND EXHIBNS AROUND THE WORLD. IT HAS -- AND NTU TO BE -- THE SUBJECT OF UNTLS BOOKS, FILMS, SCHOLARLY PAPERS, ARTICL, AND THEATRIL, ARTISTIC AND MIL PERFORMANC. FORTY YEARS TO THE AIDS PANMIC, MORE THAN 700,000 LIV THE U.S. HAVE BEEN LOST TO AIDS AND MORE THAN 1.1 LN PEOPLE LIVE WH HIV AND AN TIMATED 1 7 PEOPLE DO NOT KNOW THEY HAVE HIV. IN THE LAST FIGUR REPORTED 2018, BLACK/AIN AMERIN GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN ACUNT FOR THE LARGT NUMBER OF NEW HIV DIAGNOS. ON JUNE 5, 2020, THE NATNAL AIDS MEMORIAL BROUGHT TOGETHER THE POWER OF THE QUILT AND THE BETY OF THE 10-ACRE NATNAL AIDS MEMORIAL GROVE TOGETHER FOR A HISTORIC OBSERVANCE MARKG 40 YEARS SCE THE FIRST S OF AIDS WERE FIRST REPORTED THE UNED STAT. FORTY BLOCKS OF THE QUILT WERE ON DISPLAY AND SPECIAL GUTS AND SPEAKERS AND CLUD HOE SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI, CONGRSWOMAN BARBARA LEE, CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR GAV NEWSOM, DR. ANTHONY FCI, SAN FRANCIS MAYOR LONDON BREED AND MANY LEARS OM THE AIDS MOVEMENT.THE QUILT, 35 YEARS LATEREACH YEAR, THE NATNAL AIDS MEMORIAL WORKS WH HUNDREDS OF PARTNERS ACROSS THE UNTRY TO ORCHTRATE MORE THAN 1,000 DISPLAYS SCHOOLS, UNIVERSI, PLAC OF WORSHIP, RPORATNS AND MUNY CENTERS. ON WORLD AIDS DAY, DECEMBER 1ST, SECTNS OF THE QUILT ARE DISPLAYED MUNI ACROSS THE UNTRY. PANEL MAKG REMAS AN IMPORTANT ELEMENT OF THE QUILT, AS NEW PANELS NTUE TO BE MA. TODAY, THE AIDS MEMORIAL QUILT IS AN EPIC 54-TON TAPTRY THAT CLUS NEARLY 50,000 PANELS DITED TO MORE THAN 110,000 DIVIDUALS. IT IS THE PREMIERE SYMBOL OF THE AIDS PANMIC, A LIVG MEMORIAL TO A GENERATN LOST TO AIDS AND AN IMPORTANT HIV PREVENTN TN TOOL. WH HUNDREDS OF THOANDS OF PEOPLE NTRIBUTG THEIR TALENTS TO MAKG THE MEMORIAL PANELS, AND TENS OF THOANDS OF VOLUNTEERS TO HELP DISPLAY , THE QUILT IS NSIRED THE LARGT MUNY ARTS PROJECT HISTORY.AS THE QUILT MARKS 35 YEARS SCE THE FIRST NAM WERE HAND-SEWN AND STCHED TO PANELS AS A WAY TO REMEMBER LOVED ON AND AS AN ACT OF ACTIVISM TO MAND HEALTH AND SOCIAL JTICE, NOW MORE THAN EVER, THE NATNAL AIDS MEMORIAL RELI ON SUPPORT OM DIVIDUAL DONATNS AND OTHER PARTNERS TO ENSURE THE QUILT IS PRERVED, PROTECTED AND ABLE TO BE SHARED THROUGH MUNY DISPLAY PROGRAMS TO THE LSONS OF THE AIDS PANMIC N BE TGHT TO FUTURE GENERATNS.LEARN MORE ABOUT HELPG SUPPORT THE QUILT TODAY.“MOVED BY THE BETY OF THE GROVE AND POWER OF THE QUILT, WE AGA RENEWED OUR VOW TO FALLY FEAT THE SURGE OF AIDS AND BRG HOPE AND HEALG TO ALL THOSE AFFECTED. THANKS TO THE TIRELS LEARSHIP OF ACTIVISTS, SURVIVORS, SCIENTISTS AND THE LGBTQ MUNY, WE WILL NOT RELENT UNTIL WE BANISH HIV TO THE DTB OF HISTORY AND ACHIEVE AN AIDS-EE GENERATN.” SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI, JUNE 5, 2021SUPPORT THE AIDS MEMORIAL QUILT - DONATE NOWTHE QUILT AND MANY OF S PANELS ARE NEARLY 35 YEARS OLD. PLEASE HELP ENSURE THAT EVERY PANEL IS PROTECTED AND PRERVED AND THAT EACH STORY N FOREVER BE TOLD TO FUTURE GENERATNS. SEARCH THE AIDS QUILTTHE NATNAL AIDS MEMORIAL, THROUGH A PARTNERSHIP WH AIDS QUILT TOUCH, BRGS ALL 50,000 PANELS OF THE AIDS MEMORIAL QUILT TO PEOPLE ALL AROUND THE WORLD TO EXPERIENCE EACH PANEL’S STORY, BETY, AND LOVE THAT REPRENTS ONE OF THE LARGT ACTS OF ACTIVISM AND SOCIAL JTICE.WE VE YOU TO SEARCH THE QUILT, VIEW EACH PANEL, SEARCH FOR A IEND OR LOVED ONE AND SHARE YOUR STORY THROUGH OUR SOCIAL MEDIA CHANNELS.IN APPRECIATN TO OUR QUILT PARTNERSPRENTG PARTNERQUILT NATNAL COMMUNY PARTNERSEARCH NAMES ON THE QUILT
- SUCCS STORI!DONATE TODAYEVERY DOLLAR COUNTSTHANK YOU! YOUR SUBMISSN HAS BEEN RECEIVED!OOPS! SOMETHG WENT WRONG WHILE SUBMTG THE FORMWHAT IS THE AIDS MEMORIAL QUILT?CONSIRED THE LARGT MUNY ARTS PROJECT HISTORY, THE AIDS MEMORIAL QUILT HELPS REMEMBER THE UNIQUE LIV AND STORI OF THOSE WE’VE LOST TO HIV/AIDS.WHAT IS A QUILT PANEL?INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS CREATE QUILT PANELS TO HONOR, REMEMBER AND CELEBRATE THE STORI AND LIV OF THOSE ON LOST TO HIV/AIDS. TODAY, THERE ARE ROUGHLY 50,000 PANELS DITED TO MORE THAN 110,000 DIVIDUALS THIS EPIC 54-TON TAPTRY.HOW TO MAKE A PANELHOW IS THE QUILT ED?DRIVERS OF CHANGE E THE QUILT AS A POWERFUL TOOL TO BRG GENERATNS TOGETHER AND RAISE AWARENS ABOUT THE IMPACT OF THE ONGOG EPIMIC. A NEW IATIVE LLED CHANGE THE PATTERN IS BRGG SECTNS OF QUILT TO MUNI THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH, WHERE AIDS DISPROPORTNATELY IMPACTS MUNI OF LOR. THERE, THE QUILT HONORS BLACK AND BROWN LIV LOST TO HIV AND AIDS AND STRIV TO REIMAGE THE RPONSE TO THE EPIMIC THE REGN.LEARN MORE ABOUT CHANGE THE PATTERNIN-PERSON AND VIRTUAL COMMUNY QUILT DISPLAY PROGRAMSHARE THE QUILT'S POWERFUL STORI OF ACTIVISM, LOVE, HEALG, HOPE AND REMEMBRANCE TO NNECT THE STORY OF HIV/AIDS TO THE IMPORTANT ISSU IMPACTG OUR NATN TODAY.BRG THE QUILT TO YOUR MUNYSEARCH NAMES ON THE QUILTSEARCH THE AIDS MEMORIAL QUILT, VIEW EACH PANEL, SEARCH FOR A IEND OR LOVED ONE AND SHARE YOUR STORY THROUGH OUR SOCIAL MEDIA CHANNELS.SEARCH THE QUILT“THOANDS OF PEOPLE HAVE DIED SAN FRANCIS, LNS THE WORLD. THE POT OF THE NATNAL AIDS MEMORIAL GROVE IS TO REMEMBER THEM, ONE AT A TIME.”- CONGRSWOMAN NANCY PELOSIPERSONALIZED PHOTO GIFTTHE NATNAL AIDS MEMORIAL IS NOW ABLE TO TRANSFORM PRISTE DIGAL IMAG OF DIVIDUAL QUILT PANELS TO BETIFUL HIGH-ROLUTN PHOTOGRAPHIC PRTS - LEARN MOREQUILT MOVES TO SAN FRANCISONANCY PELOSI ANNOUNC QUILT MOVG TO SAN FRANCIS, NOVEMBER 2019 WATCH NOWHISTORY OF THE QUILTCONCEIVED 1985 BY LONG-TIME SAN FRANCIS GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST CLEVE JON - LEARN MORE40 YEARS / 40 STORIES40 YEARS OF STORI OM THE PANMIC – THE LIV LOST, THE HERO, THE SURVIVORS - SEE THE STORIMAKE A PANELHERE A FEW EASY STEPS IS HOW TO CREATE A PANEL FOR THE QUILT - LEARN MOREHOST THE QUILT, REQUEST A PANELTO REQUT TO HOST THE QUILT YOUR MUNY PLEASE MAKE A REQUTLATT PROJECTS
- HAVE A NAME ENGRAVEDIN THE CIRCLE OF FRIENDSBY ENGRAVG A NAME, YOU TELL THE WORLD THAT THIS GLOBAL TRAGEDY, THE UNTLS LIV TOUCHED BY AIDS AND THEIR STORI WILL NOT BE FOTTEN. PLEASE NOTE: THERE IS VERY LIMED SPACE LEFT FOR CIRCLE OF FRIENDS ENGRAVGS. ORDER DEADLINE IS SEPTEMBER 1, 2023REST IN PEACE, CARLINWE ARE HEARTBROKEN TO ANNOUNCE THE LOSS OF ONE OF OUR OWN, CARL HOLN, WHO IS NOW, AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN, AN ANGEL. A DITED VOLUNTEER AND MEMBER OF THE BOARD, SHE GAVE ALL OF HERSELF GENEROLY - TO OUR ANIZATN AND TO HER MUNY.COMMUNY VOLUNTEER WORKDAYSOUR MUNY ENSUR THAT THE GROVE IS RED FOR, PROTECTED AND MATAED FOR THE THOANDS OF PEOPLE WHO VIS THE MEMORIAL THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. JO EVERY THIRD SATURDAY OF THE MONTH AND MATA THIS SACRED SPACE FOR HOPE, HEALG, AND REMEMBRANCE.LEARN MORE "THK HOW MUCH HAS CHANGED…YOU MAND TO BE TREATED WH DIGNY AND WH EQUY. THOSE VOIC, THOSE STORI ARE VALUABLE…WE’RE GOG TO FISH THIS FIGHT."- PRINT JOE BIN NEW HIV FECTNS THE U.S. FELL ABOUT 8% OM 2015 TO 2019, BUT BLACK AND LATO MUNI — PARTICULARLY GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN WH THOSE GROUPS — NTUE TO BE DISPROPORTNATELY AFFECTED, ACRDG TO THE LATT CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTN DATA."IT WAS GENTLE RA, NO SPEECH OR MIC, JT THOANDS OF PEOPLE READG THE NAM ON THIS PATCHWORK OF PLARDS UP ON THAT WALL. AND I THOUGHT TO MYSELF, IT LOOKS LIKE SOME KD OF QUILT, AND I THOUGHT THIS IS THE SYMBOL WE SHOULD TAKE."- CLEVE JON, NPR TERVIEW 2016 IN 2019, 26% OF NEW HIV FECTNS WERE AMONG BLACK GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN, 23% AMONG LATO GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN, AND 45% AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN UNR THE AGE OF 35. AIN AMERIN AND HISPANICS/LATOS ACUNT FOR THE LARGT CREAS NEW HIV DIAGNOS, 42% AND 27% RPECTIVELY.“THIS DISEASE IS RILIENT AND ROURCEFUL, EVER MUTATG TO PE STCTN. WE MT BE EQUALLY ROURCEFUL OUR EFFORTS TO BAT HIV/AIDS AS WE WORK TO FALLY ACHIEVE AN AIDS-EE GENERATN.”- CONGRSWOMAN NANCY PELOSI, WORLD AIDS DAY 2019THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING US!YOUR DONATNS HELP TO SHARE THE STORY OF THE STGGLE AGAST HIV/AIDS SO THAT WE REMEMBER THE LIV LOST, OFFER HEALG AND HOPE TO SURVIVORS, AND SPIRE NEW GENERATNS.SEE THE QUILT IN YOUR COMMUNITYWE PARTNER WH MUNY-BASED ANIZATNS ACROSS THE UNTRY TO DISPLAY SECTNS OF THE QUILT TO RAISE GREATER AWARENS ABOUT HIV/AIDS IMPACTG PEOPLE TODAY. - LEARN MORENATIONAL AIDS MEMORIAL SHOPCELEBRATE 35 YEARS OF THE AIDS MEMORIAL QUILT AND HELP ENSURE THAT THE LIV OF PEOPLE WHO DIED OM AIDS ARE NOT FOTTEN. - LEARN MOREBLACK LIVES AND AIDS ACTIVISMINSPIRG VOIC THE LGBTQ MOVEMENT - READ OUR PERSPECTIVEPEDRO ZAMORA YOUNG LEADERS SCHOLARSHIP SUPPORTG THE NEXT GENERATN OF LEARS WHO RRY PEDRO’S TORCH - LEARN MOREMARY BOWMAN ARTS IN ACTIVISM AWARDINSPIRG “ARTIVISM” TO COMBAT STIGMA - LEARN MOREAIDS STORY PROJECT VOICESCAPTURG THE ORAL HISTORY OF THE EPIMIC - SEE THE STORINEWS & EVENTSTHE MEMORIAL THE MUNY AND THE MEDIA - SEE TAILSOUR PARTNERSHERE ARE PROFIL HIGHLIGHTG OUR PARTNERS - SEE PROFILORR A PERSONALIZED FRAMED AND MATTED PHOTO GIFT TODAY!
LATT CSTHE HISTORY OF THE QUILTTHE NATNAL AIDS MEMORIALAIDS MEMORIAL QUILTACTIVIST BEGNGSTHE QUILT WAS NCEIVED NOVEMBER OF 1985 BY LONG-TIME HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST, THOR AND LECTURER CLEVE JON. SCE THE 1978 ASSASSATNS OF GAY SAN FRANCIS SUPERVISOR HARVEY MILK AND MAYOR GEE MOSNE, JON HAD HELPED ANIZE THE ANNUAL NDLELIGHT MARCH HONORG THE MEN. WHILE PLANNG THE 1985 MARCH, HE LEARNED THAT OVER 1,000 SAN FRANCISNS HAD BEEN LOST TO AIDS. HE ASKED EACH OF HIS FELLOW MARCHERS TO WRE ON PLARDS THE NAM OF IENDS AND LOVED ON WHO HAD DIED OF AIDS. AT THE END OF THE MARCH, JON AND OTHERS STOOD ON LADRS TAPG THE PLARDS TO THE WALLS OF THE SAN FRANCIS FERAL BUILDG. THE WALL OF NAM LOOKED LIKE A PATCHWORK QUILT.INSPIRED BY THIS SIGHT, JON AND IENDS MA PLANS FOR A LARGER MEMORIAL. A LTLE OVER A YEAR LATER, A SMALL GROUP OF STRANGERS GATHERED A SAN FRANCIS STOREONT TO DOCUMENT THE LIV THEY FEARED HISTORY WOULD NEGLECT. THEIR GOAL WAS TO CREATE A MEMORIAL FOR THOSE WHO HAD DIED OF AIDS, AND TO THEREBY HELP PEOPLE UNRSTAND THE VASTATG IMPACT OF THE DISEASE. THIS MEETG OF VOTED IENDS AND LOVERS SERVED AS THE FOUNDATN OF THE NAMES PROJECT AIDS MEMORIAL QUILT.CLEVE CREATED THE FIRST PANEL FOR THE AIDS MEMORIAL QUILT MEMORY OF HIS IEND MARV FELDMAN. IN JUNE OF 1987, JON TEAMED UP WH MIKE SMH, GERT MCMULL AND SEVERAL OTHERS TO FORMALLY ANIZE THE NAMES PROJECT FOUNDATN.PUBLIC RPONSE TO THE QUILT WAS IMMEDIATE. PEOPLE THE U.S. CI MOST AFFECTED BY AIDS — ATLANTA, NEW YORK, LOS ANGEL AND SAN FRANCIS — SENT PANELS TO THE SAN FRANCIS WORKSHOP. GENERO DONORS RAPIDLY SUPPLIED SEWG MACH, EQUIPMENT AND OTHER MATERIALS, AND MANY VOLUNTEERED TIRELSLY.THE INGURAL DISPLAYON OCTOBER 11, 1987, THE QUILT WAS DISPLAYED FOR THE FIRST TIME ON THE NATNAL MALL WASHGTON, D.C., DURG THE NATNAL MARCH ON WASHGTON FOR LBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS. IT VERED A SPACE LARGER THAN A FOOTBALL FIELD AND CLUD 1,920 PANELS. SIX TEAMS OF EIGHT VOLUNTEERS CEREMONIALLY UNFOLD THE QUILT SECTNS AT SUNRISE AS CELEBRI, POLICIANS, FAI, LOVERS AND IENDS READ ALOUD THE 1,920 NAM OF THE PEOPLE REPRENTED QUILT. THE READG OF NAM IS NOW A TRADN FOLLOWED AT NEARLY EVERY QUILT DISPLAY. HALF A LN PEOPLE VISED THE QUILT THAT WEEKEND.THE OVERWHELMG RPONSE TO THE QUILT’S GURAL DISPLAY LED TO A FOUR-MONTH, 20-CY, NATNAL TOUR FOR THE QUILT THE SPRG AND SUMMER OF 1988. THE TOUR RAISED NEARLY $500,000 FOR HUNDREDS OF AIDS SERVICE ANIZATNS. MORE THAN 9,000 VOLUNTEERS ACROSS THE UNTRY HELPED THE SEVEN-PERSON TRAVELG CREW MOVE AND DISPLAY THE QUILT. LOL PANELS WERE ADD EACH CY, TRIPLG THE QUILT’S SIZE TO MORE THAN 6,000 PANELS BY THE END OF THE TOUR.THE QUILT GROWSTHE QUILT RETURNED TO WASHGTON, D.C. OCTOBER OF 1988, WHEN 8,288 PANELS WERE DISPLAYED ON THE ELLIPSE ONT OF THE WHE HOE.WH A SMALL SEED GRANT OM THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATN, QUILT ANIZERS TRAVELLED TO EIGHT UNTRI TO MARK THE FIRST WORLD AIDS DAY ON DECEMBER 1, 1988 WH SIMULTANEO DISPLAYS BROADST OM SIX NTENTS. THROUGHOUT 1989, MORE THAN 20 UNTRI LNCHED SIAR MEMORATIVE PROJECTS BASED ON THE QUILT. CLEVE JON, MIKE SMH AND THE NAMES PROJECT FOUNDATN WERE NOMATED FOR THE 1989 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE REGNN OF THE GLOBAL IMPACT OF THE QUILT.IN 1989 A SEND TOUR OF NORTH AMERI BROUGHT THE QUILT TO 19 ADDNAL CI THE UNED STAT AND CANADA. THAT TOUR AND OTHER 1989 DISPLAYS RAISED NEARLY A QUARTER OF A LN DOLLARS FOR AIDS SERVICE ANIZATNS. IN OCTOBER OF THAT YEAR, THE QUILT (NOW MORE THAN 12,000 PANELS SIZE) WAS AGA DISPLAYED ON THE ELLIPSE WASHGTON, D.C. HBO RELEASED THEIR DOCUMENTARY FILM ON THE QUILT, COMMON THREADS: STORI OM THE QUILT, WHICH BROUGHT THE QUILT’S MSAGE TO LNS OF MOVIE-GOERS. THE FILM WON THE AMY AWARD FOR BT DOCUMENTARY OF 1989.BY 1992, THE AIDS MEMORIAL QUILT CLUD PANELS OM EVERY STATE AND 28 UNTRI. IN OCTOBER 1992, THE ENTIRE QUILT RETURNED TO THE NATNAL MALL WASHGTON, D.C. IN JANUARY 1993, THE NAMES PROJECT WAS VED TO MARCH PRINT CLTON’S GURAL PARA WHERE OVER 200 VOLUNTEERS RRIED QUILT PANELS DOWN PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.THE LAST DISPLAY OF THE ENTIRE AIDS MEMORIAL QUILT WAS OCTOBER OF 1996 WHEN THE QUILT VERED THE ENTIRE NATNAL MALL WASHGTON, D.C. WH AN TIMATED 1.2 LN PEOPLE G TO VIEW . THE CLTONS AND GOR ATTEND THE DISPLAY, MARKG THE FIRST VIS BY A STG PRINT OF THE UNED STAT. THE QUILT MOVES TO ATLANTAIN 2000, THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE NAMES PROJECT ELECTED TO MOVE THE FOUNDATN’S NATNAL HEADQUARTERS OM SAN FRANCIS TO ATLANTA. THE CROSS-UNTRY MOVE WAS MA TO ADDRS THE CHANGG FACE OF HIV/AIDS AND GROW THE FOUNDATN’S PARTNERSHIPS, PROGRAMS AND FANCIAL ROURC.IN 2004, MORE THAN 8,000 OF THE NEWT PANELS THAT HAD BEEN RECEIVED AT OR SCE OCTOBER 1996 DISPLAY WERE SHOWN ON THE ECLIPSE WASHGTON, D.C. OBSERVANCE OF NATNAL HIV TTG DAY.IN 2012, AS PART OF THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE NAMES PROJECT FOUNDATN, THE QUILT RETURNED TO WASHGTON, DC AS PART OF A LLABORATN WH THE SMHSONIAN MM’S AMERIN FOLKLIFE FTIVAL, WHERE THE ENTIRE QUILT WAS DISPLAYED ON THE NATNAL MALL OVER THE URSE OF A TWO-WEEK PERD WH 1,500 BLOCKS OF PANELS BEG DISPLAYED EACH DAY. GIVEN THE SIZE OF THE QUILT, IS NOW TOO LARGE TO BE DISPLAYED ALL AT ONCE ON THE MALL. THE INTERNATNAL AIDS CONFERENCE WAS HELD WASHGTON DC IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWG THE DISPLAY, WHICH THE QUILT WAS A MAJOR FEATURE, WH DISPLAYS MORE THAN 60 LOTNS THROUGHOUT THE D.C. METRO AREA.IN 2013, AS PART OF ONGOG AWARENS AND TNAL EFFORTS, A SPECIAL QUILT PROGRAM, CALL MY NAME, WAS CREATED TO DRAW ATTENTN TO HIV/AIDS THE BLACK MUNY AND THE PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS THAT STILL EXISTS TODAY. THE PROGRAM AIMS TO CREATE A GREATER NUMBER OF QUILT PANELS THAT REFLECT THE IMPACT OF HIV/AIDS WH THE BLACK MUNY AND THE EFFECT STIGMA AND PREJUDICE HAVE ON CREASED FECTN RAT. A NATNAL TOUR FOLLOWED THAT CLUD HOSTG PANEL-MAKG WORKSHOPS ANIZED BY BLACK CHURCH AND MUNY GROUPS TO MAKE PANELS AND RAISER GREATER AWARENS OF ON THE HIV/AIDS CRISIS THE AIN AMERIN MUNY. YOU N SEE SOME OF THE STORI OM QUILT PANELS MA HONORG BLACK LIV LOST TO AIDS AS PART OF A POWERFUL ONLE EXHIBN OF THE QUILT DURG BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2020.ENSURG THE QUILT’S LEGACYIN NOVEMBER 2019, THE NATNAL AIDS MEMORIAL BEME THE PERMANENT RETAKER AND STEWARD OF THE QUILT, RETURNG TO SAN FRANCIS, WHERE S STORY BEGAN DURG THE HEIGHT OF THE AIDS EPIMIC. AT THAT TIME, THE QUILT’S ARCHIVAL LLECTN OF 200,000 OBJECTS, DOCUMENTS, RDS AND LETTERS THAT CHRONICLE THE LIV REMEMBERED WERE TRANSFERRED TO THE PRTIG AMERIN FOLKLIFE CENTER AT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRS, MAKG THIS LLECTN AVAILABLE THROUGH THE WORLD’S LARGT PUBLIC LIBRARY. THIS ANNOUNCEMENT, MA AT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRS WASHGTON, DC, FEATURED SPECIAL GUTS HOE SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI, AND REPRENTATIV JOHN LEWIS AND BARBARA LEE, WHO REGNIZED THE QUILT AS A NATNAL TREASURE THAT MT BE PRERVED FOR S ABILY TO TEACH FOR GENERATNS TO E. SEE THE NEWS RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT AND WATCH THE HISTORY ANNOUNCEMENT. “THIS IS THE CULMATN OF S OF WORK THAT ACHIEV A VISN LONG HELD BY THE NAMES PROJECT LEARSHIP WHO, ARMED WH AN UNWAVERG MMENT TO THE QUILT, WERE TERMED TO SEE THAT THE AIDS MEMORIAL QUILT WOULD STAND THE TT OF TIME,” SAID JULIE RHOAD, PRINT & CEO, THE NAMES PROJECT FOUNDATN. “WH THIS SET OF NEW RETAKERS, WE ARE NFINT THAT THE LEGACY OF THE QUILT AND THE NAMES PROJECT IS SECURE.”THE TASK OF MOVG THE 54-TON QUILT AND S NEARLY 50,000 PANELS WAS MONUMENTAL, WH THE FIRST PANELS ARRIVG EARLY 2020 SAN FRANCIS. THE NATNAL AIDS MEMORIAL RECEIVED A $2.4 LN GRANT OM GILEAD SCIENC TO PROVI CRIL ROURC NEED FOR THE RELOTN. SHARING THE QUILT ONLINETHROUGH A 20-YEAR PARTNERSHIP WH AIDS QUILT TOUCH, THE QUILT N BE SEEN S ENTIRETY AND THE PANELS MA HONOR OF LOVED ON SEEN ONLE AS PART OF THE INTERACTIVE AIDS QUILT SO LNS OF PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD N EXPERIENCE ’S POWERFUL STORI. IN 2020, DURG THE HEIGHT OF THE COVID-19 PANMIC AND SHELTER PLACE GUIL, THE NATNAL AIDS MEMORIAL LNCHED A FIRST-EVER 50 STATE VIRTUAL EXHIBN OF THE QUILT, BRGG THE POWER AND BETY OF THE QUILT TO MUNI ACROSS THE NATN AND WORLD TO HELP WH THE HEALG PROCS AND LOSS PEOPLE WERE FACG THE WAKE OF ANOTHER VASTATG PANMIC.“DURG THE DARKT DAYS OF THE AIDS CRISIS, THE QUILT WAS A SOURCE OF IMMENSE FORT, SPIRATN AND ED AS A TOOL FOR SOCIAL ACTIVISM TO OPEN THE EY OF THE NATN TO JTICE AND TO HELP SURVIVORS GRIEVE AND HEAL,” SAID NATNAL AIDS MEMORIAL CEO JOHN CUNNGHAM. “BRGG THE QUILT VIRTUALLY WE HOPE S POWER AND BETY N SERVE THAT SAME PURPOSE FOR THOSE WHO ARE EXPERIENCG LOSS AND GRIEF DUE TO COVID-19."ADDNAL VIRTUAL EXHIBNS WERE ADD 2021 TO HONOR BLACK LIV LOST TO AIDS FOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH AND NATIVE LIV LOST TO AIDS FOR NATNAL NATIVE HIV/AIDS AWARENS DAY. THE DISPLAYS ALSO SHARED PERSONAL STORI AND ARCHIVED LETTERS AND PHOTOS TO TELL THE STORI BEHD THE BETY OF THE QUILT. THE QUILT NTU TO SPIRE AND BE ON THE FOREONT OF NEWS, A TEACHG TOOL AND EXHIBNS AROUND THE WORLD. IT HAS -- AND NTU TO BE -- THE SUBJECT OF UNTLS BOOKS, FILMS, SCHOLARLY PAPERS, ARTICL, AND THEATRIL, ARTISTIC AND MIL PERFORMANC. FORTY YEARS TO THE AIDS PANMIC, MORE THAN 700,000 LIV THE U.S. HAVE BEEN LOST TO AIDS AND MORE THAN 1.1 LN PEOPLE LIVE WH HIV AND AN TIMATED 1 7 PEOPLE DO NOT KNOW THEY HAVE HIV. IN THE LAST FIGUR REPORTED 2018, BLACK/AIN AMERIN GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN ACUNT FOR THE LARGT NUMBER OF NEW HIV DIAGNOS. ON JUNE 5, 2020, THE NATNAL AIDS MEMORIAL BROUGHT TOGETHER THE POWER OF THE QUILT AND THE BETY OF THE 10-ACRE NATNAL AIDS MEMORIAL GROVE TOGETHER FOR A HISTORIC OBSERVANCE MARKG 40 YEARS SCE THE FIRST S OF AIDS WERE FIRST REPORTED THE UNED STAT. FORTY BLOCKS OF THE QUILT WERE ON DISPLAY AND SPECIAL GUTS AND SPEAKERS AND CLUD HOE SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI, CONGRSWOMAN BARBARA LEE, CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR GAV NEWSOM, DR. ANTHONY FCI, SAN FRANCIS MAYOR LONDON BREED AND MANY LEARS OM THE AIDS MOVEMENT.THE QUILT, 35 YEARS LATEREACH YEAR, THE NATNAL AIDS MEMORIAL WORKS WH HUNDREDS OF PARTNERS ACROSS THE UNTRY TO ORCHTRATE MORE THAN 1,000 DISPLAYS SCHOOLS, UNIVERSI, PLAC OF WORSHIP, RPORATNS AND MUNY CENTERS. ON WORLD AIDS DAY, DECEMBER 1ST, SECTNS OF THE QUILT ARE DISPLAYED MUNI ACROSS THE UNTRY. PANEL MAKG REMAS AN IMPORTANT ELEMENT OF THE QUILT, AS NEW PANELS NTUE TO BE MA. TODAY, THE AIDS MEMORIAL QUILT IS AN EPIC 54-TON TAPTRY THAT CLUS NEARLY 50,000 PANELS DITED TO MORE THAN 110,000 DIVIDUALS. IT IS THE PREMIERE SYMBOL OF THE AIDS PANMIC, A LIVG MEMORIAL TO A GENERATN LOST TO AIDS AND AN IMPORTANT HIV PREVENTN TN TOOL. WH HUNDREDS OF THOANDS OF PEOPLE NTRIBUTG THEIR TALENTS TO MAKG THE MEMORIAL PANELS, AND TENS OF THOANDS OF VOLUNTEERS TO HELP DISPLAY , THE QUILT IS NSIRED THE LARGT MUNY ARTS PROJECT HISTORY.AS THE QUILT MARKS 35 YEARS SCE THE FIRST NAM WERE HAND-SEWN AND STCHED TO PANELS AS A WAY TO REMEMBER LOVED ON AND AS AN ACT OF ACTIVISM TO MAND HEALTH AND SOCIAL JTICE, NOW MORE THAN EVER, THE NATNAL AIDS MEMORIAL RELI ON SUPPORT OM DIVIDUAL DONATNS AND OTHER PARTNERS TO ENSURE THE QUILT IS PRERVED, PROTECTED AND ABLE TO BE SHARED THROUGH MUNY DISPLAY PROGRAMS TO THE LSONS OF THE AIDS PANMIC N BE TGHT TO FUTURE GENERATNS.LEARN MORE ABOUT HELPG SUPPORT THE QUILT TODAY.“MOVED BY THE BETY OF THE GROVE AND POWER OF THE QUILT, WE AGA RENEWED OUR VOW TO FALLY FEAT THE SURGE OF AIDS AND BRG HOPE AND HEALG TO ALL THOSE AFFECTED. THANKS TO THE TIRELS LEARSHIP OF ACTIVISTS, SURVIVORS, SCIENTISTS AND THE LGBTQ MUNY, WE WILL NOT RELENT UNTIL WE BANISH HIV TO THE DTB OF HISTORY AND ACHIEVE AN AIDS-EE GENERATN.” SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI, JUNE 5, 2021SUPPORT THE AIDS MEMORIAL QUILT - DONATE NOWTHE QUILT AND MANY OF S PANELS ARE NEARLY 35 YEARS OLD. PLEASE HELP ENSURE THAT EVERY PANEL IS PROTECTED AND PRERVED AND THAT EACH STORY N FOREVER BE TOLD TO FUTURE GENERATNS. SEARCH THE AIDS QUILTTHE NATNAL AIDS MEMORIAL, THROUGH A PARTNERSHIP WH AIDS QUILT TOUCH, BRGS ALL 50,000 PANELS OF THE AIDS MEMORIAL QUILT TO PEOPLE ALL AROUND THE WORLD TO EXPERIENCE EACH PANEL’S STORY, BETY, AND LOVE THAT REPRENTS ONE OF THE LARGT ACTS OF ACTIVISM AND SOCIAL JTICE.WE VE YOU TO SEARCH THE QUILT, VIEW EACH PANEL, SEARCH FOR A IEND OR LOVED ONE AND SHARE YOUR STORY THROUGH OUR SOCIAL MEDIA CHANNELS.IN APPRECIATN TO OUR QUILT PARTNERSPRENTG PARTNERQUILT NATNAL COMMUNY PARTNERSEARCH NAMES ON THE QUILT
Sce the 1978 assassatns of gay San Francis Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor Gee Mosne, Jon had helped anize the annual ndlelight march honorg the men. C., durg the Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights. In the last figur reported 2018, Black/Ain Amerin gay and bisexual men acunt for the largt number of new HIV diagnos.
First imaged by gay rights activist Cleve Jon 1985, the AIDS Memorial Quilt—wh 1, 920 dividual panels, each scribed wh the name of a person lost to AIDS—was displayed for the first time on the Natnal Mall Washgton, D. Long-time San Francis gay rights activist Cleve Jon first envisned the AIDS Quilt 1985. After eight months away, Jon returned to San Francis for the annual ndlelight march memoratg policians and gay rights advot Harvey Milk and Mayor Gee Mosne, who were assassated on November 27, 1978.
The 1987 San Francis gay and lbian pri ftival provid a means to reach out to hundreds of people, and support by then-Mayor Dianne Feste bolstered the movement. The Nam Project AIDS Memorial Quilt vered the Natnal Mall durg October 1987’s Send Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights. The ncept me om Cleve Jon, a San Francis protégé of Harvey Milk, the gay cy supervisor assassated wh Mayor Gee Mosne 1978.
SUCCS STORI!DONATE TODAYEVERY DOLLAR COUNTSTHANK YOU! YOUR SUBMISSN HAS BEEN RECEIVED!OOPS! SOMETHG WENT WRONG WHILE SUBMTG THE FORMWHAT IS THE AIDS MEMORIAL QUILT?CONSIRED THE LARGT MUNY ARTS PROJECT HISTORY, THE AIDS MEMORIAL QUILT HELPS REMEMBER THE UNIQUE LIV AND STORI OF THOSE WE’VE LOST TO HIV/AIDS.WHAT IS A QUILT PANEL?INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS CREATE QUILT PANELS TO HONOR, REMEMBER AND CELEBRATE THE STORI AND LIV OF THOSE ON LOST TO HIV/AIDS. TODAY, THERE ARE ROUGHLY 50,000 PANELS DITED TO MORE THAN 110,000 DIVIDUALS THIS EPIC 54-TON TAPTRY.HOW TO MAKE A PANELHOW IS THE QUILT ED?DRIVERS OF CHANGE E THE QUILT AS A POWERFUL TOOL TO BRG GENERATNS TOGETHER AND RAISE AWARENS ABOUT THE IMPACT OF THE ONGOG EPIMIC. A NEW IATIVE LLED CHANGE THE PATTERN IS BRGG SECTNS OF QUILT TO MUNI THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH, WHERE AIDS DISPROPORTNATELY IMPACTS MUNI OF LOR. THERE, THE QUILT HONORS BLACK AND BROWN LIV LOST TO HIV AND AIDS AND STRIV TO REIMAGE THE RPONSE TO THE EPIMIC THE REGN.LEARN MORE ABOUT CHANGE THE PATTERNIN-PERSON AND VIRTUAL COMMUNY QUILT DISPLAY PROGRAMSHARE THE QUILT'S POWERFUL STORI OF ACTIVISM, LOVE, HEALG, HOPE AND REMEMBRANCE TO NNECT THE STORY OF HIV/AIDS TO THE IMPORTANT ISSU IMPACTG OUR NATN TODAY.BRG THE QUILT TO YOUR MUNYSEARCH NAMES ON THE QUILTSEARCH THE AIDS MEMORIAL QUILT, VIEW EACH PANEL, SEARCH FOR A IEND OR LOVED ONE AND SHARE YOUR STORY THROUGH OUR SOCIAL MEDIA CHANNELS.SEARCH THE QUILT“THOANDS OF PEOPLE HAVE DIED SAN FRANCIS, LNS THE WORLD. THE POT OF THE NATNAL AIDS MEMORIAL GROVE IS TO REMEMBER THEM, ONE AT A TIME.”- CONGRSWOMAN NANCY PELOSIPERSONALIZED PHOTO GIFTTHE NATNAL AIDS MEMORIAL IS NOW ABLE TO TRANSFORM PRISTE DIGAL IMAG OF DIVIDUAL QUILT PANELS TO BETIFUL HIGH-ROLUTN PHOTOGRAPHIC PRTS - LEARN MOREQUILT MOVES TO SAN FRANCISONANCY PELOSI ANNOUNC QUILT MOVG TO SAN FRANCIS, NOVEMBER 2019 WATCH NOWHISTORY OF THE QUILTCONCEIVED 1985 BY LONG-TIME SAN FRANCIS GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST CLEVE JON - LEARN MORE40 YEARS / 40 STORIES40 YEARS OF STORI OM THE PANMIC – THE LIV LOST, THE HERO, THE SURVIVORS - SEE THE STORIMAKE A PANELHERE A FEW EASY STEPS IS HOW TO CREATE A PANEL FOR THE QUILT - LEARN MOREHOST THE QUILT, REQUEST A PANELTO REQUT TO HOST THE QUILT YOUR MUNY PLEASE MAKE A REQUTLATT PROJECTS
The disease was vastatg gay men particular. ”- Congrswoman Nancy PelosiPERSONALIZED PHOTO GIFTThe Natnal AIDS Memorial is now able to transform priste digal imag of dividual Quilt panels to betiful high-rolutn photographic prts - learn moreQUILT MOVES TO SAN FRANCISONancy Pelosi announc Quilt Movg to San Francis, November 2019 watch nowHISTORY OF THE QUILTConceived 1985 by long-time San Francis gay rights activist Cleve Jon - learn more40 YEARS / 40 STORIES40 years of stori om the panmic – the liv lost, the hero, the survivors - see the storiMAKE A PANELHere a few easy steps is how to create a panel for The Quilt - learn moreHOST THE QUILT, REQUEST A PANELTo requt to host the Quilt your muny please make a requtLatt Projectssupport our programsOur work helps ensure that the liv of people who died om AIDS are not fotten and the story of AIDS is known by future generatns -so that never aga will a muny be harmed bee of fear, silence, discrimatn, or stigma.
HAVE A NAME ENGRAVEDIN THE CIRCLE OF FRIENDSBY ENGRAVG A NAME, YOU TELL THE WORLD THAT THIS GLOBAL TRAGEDY, THE UNTLS LIV TOUCHED BY AIDS AND THEIR STORI WILL NOT BE FOTTEN. PLEASE NOTE: THERE IS VERY LIMED SPACE LEFT FOR CIRCLE OF FRIENDS ENGRAVGS. ORDER DEADLINE IS SEPTEMBER 1, 2023REST IN PEACE, CARLINWE ARE HEARTBROKEN TO ANNOUNCE THE LOSS OF ONE OF OUR OWN, CARL HOLN, WHO IS NOW, AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN, AN ANGEL. A DITED VOLUNTEER AND MEMBER OF THE BOARD, SHE GAVE ALL OF HERSELF GENEROLY - TO OUR ANIZATN AND TO HER MUNY.COMMUNY VOLUNTEER WORKDAYSOUR MUNY ENSUR THAT THE GROVE IS RED FOR, PROTECTED AND MATAED FOR THE THOANDS OF PEOPLE WHO VIS THE MEMORIAL THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. JO EVERY THIRD SATURDAY OF THE MONTH AND MATA THIS SACRED SPACE FOR HOPE, HEALG, AND REMEMBRANCE.LEARN MORE "THK HOW MUCH HAS CHANGED…YOU MAND TO BE TREATED WH DIGNY AND WH EQUY. THOSE VOIC, THOSE STORI ARE VALUABLE…WE’RE GOG TO FISH THIS FIGHT."- PRINT JOE BIN NEW HIV FECTNS THE U.S. FELL ABOUT 8% OM 2015 TO 2019, BUT BLACK AND LATO MUNI — PARTICULARLY GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN WH THOSE GROUPS — NTUE TO BE DISPROPORTNATELY AFFECTED, ACRDG TO THE LATT CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTN DATA."IT WAS GENTLE RA, NO SPEECH OR MIC, JT THOANDS OF PEOPLE READG THE NAM ON THIS PATCHWORK OF PLARDS UP ON THAT WALL. AND I THOUGHT TO MYSELF, IT LOOKS LIKE SOME KD OF QUILT, AND I THOUGHT THIS IS THE SYMBOL WE SHOULD TAKE."- CLEVE JON, NPR TERVIEW 2016 IN 2019, 26% OF NEW HIV FECTNS WERE AMONG BLACK GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN, 23% AMONG LATO GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN, AND 45% AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN UNR THE AGE OF 35. AIN AMERIN AND HISPANICS/LATOS ACUNT FOR THE LARGT CREAS NEW HIV DIAGNOS, 42% AND 27% RPECTIVELY.“THIS DISEASE IS RILIENT AND ROURCEFUL, EVER MUTATG TO PE STCTN. WE MT BE EQUALLY ROURCEFUL OUR EFFORTS TO BAT HIV/AIDS AS WE WORK TO FALLY ACHIEVE AN AIDS-EE GENERATN.”- CONGRSWOMAN NANCY PELOSI, WORLD AIDS DAY 2019THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING US!YOUR DONATNS HELP TO SHARE THE STORY OF THE STGGLE AGAST HIV/AIDS SO THAT WE REMEMBER THE LIV LOST, OFFER HEALG AND HOPE TO SURVIVORS, AND SPIRE NEW GENERATNS.SEE THE QUILT IN YOUR COMMUNITYWE PARTNER WH MUNY-BASED ANIZATNS ACROSS THE UNTRY TO DISPLAY SECTNS OF THE QUILT TO RAISE GREATER AWARENS ABOUT HIV/AIDS IMPACTG PEOPLE TODAY. - LEARN MORENATIONAL AIDS MEMORIAL SHOPCELEBRATE 35 YEARS OF THE AIDS MEMORIAL QUILT AND HELP ENSURE THAT THE LIV OF PEOPLE WHO DIED OM AIDS ARE NOT FOTTEN. - LEARN MOREBLACK LIVES AND AIDS ACTIVISMINSPIRG VOIC THE LGBTQ MOVEMENT - READ OUR PERSPECTIVEPEDRO ZAMORA YOUNG LEADERS SCHOLARSHIP SUPPORTG THE NEXT GENERATN OF LEARS WHO RRY PEDRO’S TORCH - LEARN MOREMARY BOWMAN ARTS IN ACTIVISM AWARDINSPIRG “ARTIVISM” TO COMBAT STIGMA - LEARN MOREAIDS STORY PROJECT VOICESCAPTURG THE ORAL HISTORY OF THE EPIMIC - SEE THE STORINEWS & EVENTSTHE MEMORIAL THE MUNY AND THE MEDIA - SEE TAILSOUR PARTNERSHERE ARE PROFIL HIGHLIGHTG OUR PARTNERS - SEE PROFILORR A PERSONALIZED FRAMED AND MATTED PHOTO GIFT TODAY!
Wh over 48, 000 panels, the AIDS Memorial Quilt is a visual and tactile tribute to the liv lost to HIV and AIDS, illns which have disproportnately affected gay muni for many reasons, cludg aquate tn of a closeted muny, stigmatizatn, and aquate treatment. This story was origally published by was a cultural phenomenon, the AIDS Memorial Quilt began as a unique, betiful way the mid-1980s to remember ar on lost to a myster, terrifyg disease that most of mastream society didn’t discs bee gay men were the first to be the end of that , the quilt vered the ground of the Natnal Mall Washgton, D.
It was created 1988 by members of the Atlanta Gay Men’s Chos memory of lost members. “Too much work about HIV and gayns is for dienc that already know, so I wanted to take out of that ntext, ” Terrell said.
“When we created the first Quilt panels was to share wh as many people possible liv tragilly beg lost to AIDS and to mand actn om our ernment, ” says quilt founr and gay rights activist Cleve Jon a statement.