Love, pain, joy, sadness, anger, exhilaration and a celebration of life : the quilt comes home : Fort Mason Festival Pavilion June 21-24, 1990 : see the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt on Thursday from 7-10pm, Friday and Saturday from 12-10 pm and Sunday from 12-7 pm, for more information, or to be a NAMES Project volunteer, call (415) 863-5511 : please bring a donation of canned food for the S.F. AIDS Foundation Food Bank : all other contributions benefit the following San Francisco AIDS Organizations: The Names Project; AIDS Emergency Fund; American Indian AIDS Institute; Asian AIDS Project; Bayview-Hunters Point Foundation; Black Coalition on AIDS; Bridge; Continuum; Family Link; Godfather Fund; Healing Alternative Buyer's Club; Larkin Street Youth Center; Latino AIDS Project; PAWS; Project Inform; Project Open Hand; Rest Stop; Shanti Project; Visiting Nurses and Hospice of S.F.
Image of panels from the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt. At the end of the 1985 Candlight March honoring Harvey Milk and George Moscone, organizer Cleve Jones asked fellow marchers to write down the names of friends and loved ones who had died of AIDS. The AIDS Quilt was inspired by placards with...
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