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...
| Format: | Photo |
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| Language: | English |
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[San Francisco] :
[San Francisco AIDS Foundation],
[1990]
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| Summary: | 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 these names which were taped to the side of the San Francisco Federal building, which looked like a patchwork quilt. Jones, with others, made plans for a larger memorial, and organized the NAMES Project Foundation. People in cities affected by AIDS sent panels to San Francisco and volunteers supplied time and materials. The Quilt was displayed for the first time on the National Mall in Washington D.C. during the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights on October 11, 1987. It included 1920 panels and covered a space larger than a football field. |
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| Item Description: | The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture. |
| Physical Description: | 1 print : lithograph, color ; sheet 61 x 46 cm |