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The NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, often abbreviated to AIDS Memorial Quilt or AIDS Quilt, is a memorial to celebrate the lives of people who have died of AIDS-related causes. Weighing an estimated 54 tons, [ 1 ] it is the largest piece of community folk art in the world, as of 2020.
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt is a 1989 American documentary film that tells the story of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt. [2] Narrated by Dustin Hoffman, with a musical score written and performed by Bobby McFerrin, the film focuses on several people who are represented by panels in the Quilt, combining personal reminiscences with archive footage of the subjects, along with ...
The AIDS Quilt Songbook is an ongoing collaborative song-cycle with subsequent additions responding to the stigma surrounding, ignorance of, and grief caused by the spread of HIV/AIDS, serving as a companion work to the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt. While its original printed edition consists of 18 songs with texts and music by American ...
It's a living tribute to people who've died from HIV/AIDS — a disease that attacks the body's immune system. Newsy visited the quilt's home in San Leandro, California. Gert McMullin has mothered ...
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will mark World AIDS Day on Sunday by debuting the AIDS Memorial Quilt at the White House. A red ribbon will also be displayed on the South Portico of ...
Cleve Jones (born October 11, 1954) is an American AIDS and LGBT rights activist. [1] He conceived the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, which has become, at 54 tons, the world's largest piece of community folk art as of 2020.
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American LGBT and AIDS activist, who conceived of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt. Featured in And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic and portrayed in Milk. [78] Cass Mann (1948–2009) AIDS activist/dissident and founder of the holistic AIDS charity Positively Healthy.