“Epidemics, like wars, mark a generation for life.”
The AIDS Memorial Quilt was created 27 years ago as a work of community activism to protest the appalling lack of attention by the US health agencies to an increase in improbable fatalities among gay men in the United States. Its first inception unfolded in October 1987 on the National Mall in Washington DC as part of the March for Gay Rights; it included 1,920 Quilt panels. In 2014, the Quilt now encompasses more than 48,000 panels, representing 60 countries and commemorating more than 93,000 names. It is the largest living memorial of its kind in the world.
Annette Appiah Alya Fetyani Aiko Roudette
Tara Baban Shareese Bembury-Coakley Syeeda Thomas Briddell Leticia Ferreira De Souza Rebecca Watson
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