Tens of thousands streamed through Golden Gate Park over the weekend to see the National Memorial AIDS Quilt.
SAN FRANCISCO – Tens of thousands streamed through Golden Gate Park over the weekend to see the National Memorial AIDS Quilt, which was displayed in San Francisco for the first time in nearly two decades.
"I had a half a dozen names engraved in the circle of friends and that's just a fraction of the people that I've lost," said Drew. "Every single one is a story and there's thousands and thousands of them. So it's incredible. They're incredibly personal that somebody made that," said Drew. The weekend display only represents 6% of the massive quilt that still grows, despite remarkable advances in HIV medicine.
"We helped with folding the quilt and we both thought that that was something that we would never forget," said Janolyn King.
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