The National AIDS Memorial will kick off the 23rd International AIDS Conference today with the unveiling of the AIDSMemorial.org website, which will feature a virtual display of all 48,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt.
The organization will also host a display of 80 panels of the quilt at the San Francisco and Oakland city halls. Both cities are hosts of this year’s conference, which will be conducted virtually due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.
The display will be the first time quilt panels have been hung on both city halls. The first panels of the quilt were also hung on San Francisco City Hall in 1987.
Visitors to the website will be able to search the panels of the quilt for specific names and learn the stories of those who have died from AIDS. Roughly 1.2 million people in the U.S. today are living with HIV and AIDS.
AIDSMemorial.org is scheduled to launch this morning.
That’s my brother in the picture if the AIDS Quilt. Mike Jones passed away in 1995 of AIDS. went to Mt. Diablo High School graduated 1979.
Greatly missed 😞
So sorry for your loss. I imagine you still miss him.
I remember coming home from the service and being unable to locate an entire circle of friends. A few years later I discovered most of them among the names in the quilt. So many died, I am grateful they are not forgotten.