This is a picture of people looking at the AIDS quilt. In San Francisco, gay rights activist Cleve Jones made the first panel for the AIDS Memorial Quilt in memory of his friend Marvin Feldman in 1987. The Names project is a campaign to provide memorials to those lives by creating a huge quilt made up of individual panels, each 3 by 6 feet, that have been made by families, friends and co-workers of those who died. Each of the panels, which have come from all over the country, bears the name of a victim of acquired immune deficiency. More about the history of HIV and AIDS can be found at http://www.avert.org/historyi.htm

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