NAMES Project/AIDS QUILT

The NAMES Project/AIDS Quilt is planned to be displayed in the Castro. Community leaders plan to show off the largest collection of AIDS quilt panels the city has seen in decades.

The quilt will be in the Castro District starting this weekend.

Sunday, February 12th - Monday, February 20, 2012

(Click Poster for Schedule of Events)

For more information about this event go to:

http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=67342

http://www.facebook.com/events/216325548460620/

http://foundsf.org/index.php?title=The_Castro_Into_the_90s

http://www.aidsquilt.org/about/medianewsroom

The AIDS Memorial Quilt Background

In June of 1987, a small group of strangers gathered in a San Francisco storefront to document the lives they feared history would neglect. Their goal was to create a memorial for those who had died of AIDS, and to thereby help people understand the devastating impact of the disease. This meeting of devoted friends and lovers served as the foundation of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt.

The Quilt was conceived in November of 1985 by long-time San Francisco gay rights activist Cleve Jones, who helped organize the annual candlelight march honoring Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone. At the end of the 1985 march, Jones and others stood on ladders taping placards bearing the names of friends and loved ones who had died of AIDS to the walls of the San Francisco Federal Building. The wall of names looked like a patchwork quilt.