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GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE

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Thousands of people gather with candles around the Washington Monument's Reflecting Pool, after a candlelight march during the 1988 Quilt display.

THE

Photos by Brian DeWitt

NAMES The Quilt is going to Washingtton again

PROJECT

The 1988 Quilt display on the Ellipse, with the White House in the background.

San Francisco--The Names Project is celebrating its fifth anniversary while planning for the upcoming Washington, D.C. display of the AIDS Memorial Quilt on the weekend of October 9-11. An estimated 300,000 visitors are expected to converge in the nation's capital that weekend.

When it was first displayed in Washington in October of 1987, the Names Project Quilt consisted of less than 2,000 panels and weighed 2.3 tons. Today, five years later, the Quilt has grown to include well over 20,000 hand made panels and weighs a staggering 23.2 tons. Twenty thousand panels in five years represents the creation of a new panel every two hours.

That first display, at the 1987 March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, covered less than an acre of the Capitol Mall. On its fifth year anniversary this October, the Quilt will cover more than eight acres, stretching across the grounds of the Washington Monument and helping to focus the world's attention on the need for education and action in response to AIDS. The Quilt was first conceived by Names Project founder Cleve Jones as he was helping to organize the annual candlelight march in honor of San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone, who were assassinated in 1978. Jones asked march participants to write down the names of loved ones who had died of AIDS. At the end of the candlelight march, these names were taped onto the walls of the San Francisco Federal Building, reminding Jones of a patchwork quilt and inspiring him to formulate plans for the Names Project AIDS Memorial

Quilt. Jones and co-fou several others to formal workshop opened in A storefront it occupies t "I believe we can t we've reached out and around the world." said for the next five years a here when we sew in th

"The International] presidential election, gi leadership on AIDS an public awareness," sai

Panels to be included were accepted through J more than 4,000 panel from around the world, one quarter.. New panel International Display d

To purchase discour D.C., contact the Name For discounted hotel a volunteer or donate fina further information on Cleveland chapter at 28 Market Street, San Fra

1 co-founder Mike Smith then teamed up with formally organize the Names Project. The Quilt ed in August 1987 in the same Market Street cupies today.

e can take some satisfaction in knowing that out and touched the hearts of millions of people d." said Jones. "And we'll continue to reach out years and beyond. My greatest ambition is to be ew in the last panel."

ational Display, coming one month before the ction, gives us tremendous opportunity to make IDS an issue in the election and will help raise ss," said Jones.

ncluded in the Quilt for the Washington display rough July 15. During the preceding two weeks, 0 panels were received by the Names Project world, increasing the size of the Quilt by nearly w panels are welcome and may be brought to the isplay during the weekend of the event. discounted fares for the event in Washington, e Names Project Travel desk at 800-926-2631. hotel accomodations, call 800-554-2220. To ate financial support call 800-221-NAMES. For tion on making a panel, call the Names Project ter at 281-1610, or the national workshop, 2362 San Francisco, CA, 94114, 415-863-5511.

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