UK AIDS Quilt 027

This is Quilt 027 of 042 in the UK AIDS Memorial Quilt collection, created during the late 1980's and early 1990's before there was effective treatment for people living with HIV.

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The AIDS Quilt Memorial Project

This collection is created in memory of loved ones, friends and family. For some people our archive contains a great deal of information about their lives, for others we hold little, or none.

email aidsquiltuk@gmail.com if you have any information about someone remembered here 

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027 Paul Ashton
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Paul Ashton

Paul volunteered for London Gay Switchboard. 
What a privilege it was to know him and to be his friend.
Listen to the tribute from  his friend Linda.
Paul died in August 1989.

AIDS Quilt 27 Paul Ashton, From the collection of: AIDS Quilt UK
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Paul loved Christmas and he built up a tradition of holding riotous Christmas parties

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NAZ Project

NAZ is a sexual health charity working to address sexual health inequalities in Black, Brown and Global Majority communities. 

Nick Game

Paul

Body Positive Newcastle Upon Tyne

Body Positive was a national support network created by people living with HIV to provide peer support, the importance of which continues today.

Stevie Space Bev

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Many of the quilts we hold have no back up information. If you recognise any names or panels without information please get in touch. email aidsquiltuk@gmail.com

Thank you to the partnership volunteers and members who recorded the letters and stories associated with the panels made for loved ones lost in the early days of the HIV / AIDS epidemic in the 80’s and 90’s. 

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The story featured may in some cases have been created by an independent third party and may not always represent the views of the institutions, listed below, who have supplied the content.
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