While planning a 1985 candlelight march,
activist Cleve Jones learned that over
1,000 San Franciscans had been lost to
AIDS. He asked each of his fellow
marchers to write on placards the names
of friends and loved ones who had died of
AIDS. At the end of the march, Jones and
others stood on ladders taping these
placards to the walls of the San Francisco
Federal Building. The wall of names
looked like a patchwork quilt. In 1987, the
Quilt was displayed for the first time on
the National Mall in Washington, D.C. It
covered a space larger than a football
field and included 1,920 panels.
Celebrities, politicians, families, lovers
and friends read aloud the 1,920 names
of the people represented in the Quilt.
That total number of names has now
grown to over 110,000.
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