The Manual on Viruses

The AIDS Memorial Quilt, listing the names
of those lost, on display in the nation's
capital. Today it constitutes the largest piece
of community folk art in the world.
Washington, D.C.. April, 1988.
Los Angeles Public Library
The idea for the NAMES Project Memorial Quilt was conceived on
November 27, 1985 by AIDS activist Cleve Jones during the annual
candlelight march, in remembrance of the 1978 assassinations of San
Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone. For
the march, Jones had people write the names of loved ones that were
lost to AIDS-related causes on signs, and then they taped the signs to
the old San Francisco Federal Building.
By National Institutes of Health
The NAMES Project, emerged as a
way of memorializing those who had
passed, refusing to let them be forgotten
by the historical narrative.
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