Bring a Quilt panel to the March

Only new panels to be displayed

Over 160,000 Americans won't be able to attend the 1993 March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation on April 25--because they've died of AIDS. But thanks to the Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt and the efforts of loved ones, many of them can be there in spirit.

The Names Project called for all who are going to the March to bring new three-bysix-foot panels commemorating those who have died of AIDS for inclusion in a unique display of the AIDS Memorial Quilt. The display will serve both to memorialize those who have died, and to mobilize the living to continue the fight to end AIDS.

Names Project co-founder Mike Smith, who is organizing the display, says he anticipates receiving over 2,000 new panels.

"Nearly everyone going to the March has watched friends suffer through a losing battle with AIDS," Smith said. "Many of us had planned to attend the March with a lover or friend who didn't live long enough to see it. This display is a way for us to include those lost friends in a historic event-the largest gathering of lesbian and gay people ever.'

Whereas most Quilt displays are composed of panels received by the Names Project since it began in 1987, this display will feature only those panels actually received during the March on Washington weekend. Throughout the weekend, visitors may add new panels directly to the

Quilt. Names Project volunteers will escort panel-makers onto the Quilt, and then pin newly-presented panels together to form the display. Organizers expect that the Quilt display will reflect the hope, anger, joy and sadness of the March participants.

Covering the Mall between 13th and 14th streets in front of the National Museum of American History, the display will repeat the size and shape of the Quilt's inaugural display during the 1987 March on Washington, when it included 1,920 panels.

This display, however, breaks from tradition in more ways than one. Forming the foundation of the display will

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Visitors gather at the edge of the Quilt to await its complete unfurling. Twenty thousand panels made up last October's display, seen here from the top of the Washington Monument.

be 240 twelve-by-twelve-foot "Signature Squares," fabric blocks on which visitors to previous Quilt displays have inscribed their names, written notes to departed loved ones, and captured their feelings and thoughts on fabric.

On the morning of Saturday, April 24, Names Project volunteers will unfold these Signature Squares to create the first stage of the display. But immediately after the unfolding has ended, the Quilt will begin a gradual transformation as 1,920 newlypresented panels are added during the weekend.

AIDS activists to encircle Capitol on March weekend

Less than a month away from congressional budget reviews and appropriations committee hearings, thousands of AIDS activists from around the nation will link hands around the Capitol to call for additional funding for AIDS research and care. Hands Around the Capitol will launch a weekend of activities and events for an estimated one million visitors participating in the 1993 March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation. Hands Around the Capitol is scheduled to begin at 12:00 noon on Saturday, April 24.

Staffers from the House and Senate appropriations committees have said Congress no longer considers AIDS a spending priority. Protest sponsor ACT UP-D.C. envisions Hands Around the Capitol as a message to Congress that the American people will not stand for inadequate AIDS research and care spending. Equal levels of effort for every person infected with HIV are needed, regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation and age. A 1992 Roper survey commissioned by the Gay Men's Health Crisis of New York found 88 percent of those polled felt the government

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should mount "a massive scientific effort to find a cure and vaccine for AIDS."

ACT UP-D.C. is calling on groups and individuals around the country to join the non-violent protest by adopting sections of the Capitol sidewalk. Civil disobedience and arrests are not to be a part of the action.

Weeks before the 1992 Presidential election, ACT UP-D.C. coordinated the largest AIDS demonstration ever in Washington, with 15,000 people surrounding the White House demanding presidential leadership to end the AIDS crisis.

"Now we have a significant opportunity, with a new administration in the White House, to see a new attitude and change of direction with AIDS research and care," said ACT UP-D.C. member Bryan Barr. "We must now target Congress with the same energy that helped elect our new administration. They also bear responsibility for the pathetic progress achieved during twelve years of this epidemic," Barr continued.

For details on participating in the April 24 event, Hands Around the Capito;, telephone ACT UP-D.C. coordinators at 202328-2437.

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To include panels in the display, panelmakers must present them in person. Panelmakers who can't attend may send their panels to the display with friends. Because the display will contain only new panels, the Names Project cannot accept requests

that other panels be included. For more information about the display, call 415403-3627. For information on how to make a panel for the Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, call 415-863-5511.

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