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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
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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
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