AIDS Memorial Quilt Is Returning Home To San Francisco
The quilt was the brainchild of AIDS activists in the late 1980's who wanted to use names to memorialize the lives of people who had died of the disease.
by Richard Gonzales
Nov 20, 2019
2 minutes
The AIDS Memorial Quilt is returning home to San Francisco, where it was first conceived and created in 1987 as an artistic expression of defiance against the deadly disease that ultimately claimed hundreds of thousands of lives.
The quilt is a vast patchwork of more than, has been based in Atlanta for the past 18 years.
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