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a loving tribute in remembrance of those who are no longer with us created by those left behind for healing, hope and history |
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Carol Hart, Chairman Norman Carmel Stephanie Bashein Emerson Terrell Hart Jim Jablonski Richard Trifari John Acevedo
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The AIDS Memorial Quilt is leaving San Francisco nearly 15 years
after the first of its 40,000 panels were stitched together. The 54-ton
memorial for 80,000 AIDS victims is being moved to Atlanta, where it
will be housed in a climate-controlled warehouse. Cleve Jones, a San
Francisco native, came up with the idea for the quilt in 1985 when he
attended a candlelight memorial march for former mayor George Moscone
and openly gay city supervisor, Harvey Milk, both gunned down in 1978.
Jones handed out cardboard squares and markers to others at the
memorial, urging them to jot down something about a loved one lost to
AIDS. The cardboard panels were then pasted on the outer wall of a
health services building. Jones mentioned to a friend that the panels
looked like a quilt, and the memorial movement was born. -
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Keeper of the Quilt
Community AIDS
Network
1231
North Tuttle Avenue
Sarasota, FL 34237
(941) 366-0461
www.cccsrq.org
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