UK AIDS Quilt 014
This is Quilt 014 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.
The AIDS Quilt Memorial Partnership
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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Mum
This panel is dedicated to all women lost to AIDS.
It also honours a mother who died in 1985
In a world that refuses to see or understand, the vital labour of our grief is crippled by fear and guilt.
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Irish John
Stephen Fellows (Bunty)
Royston, a good friend of Bunty made this panel
Bunty was Jewish, British and gay and proud of all these facts, as represented in the panel.
He died on February 19th 1987
As friends we had an understanding which did not need words. There is nothing we could not do for each other and I miss him.
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Kevin
Panel made by Kevin's family for their loving son, brother and uncle
Kevin was an active member of Body Positive in Sussex
Kevin died on 17th February 1992
Kevin put so much in to helping others and made many friends throughout his life. He will be deeply missed by everyone who knew him.
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Joseph Beam
From Philadelphia, Joseph was active in local and national efforts for acceptance, visibility and social justice for the Black gay community.
Joseph died on December 27th 1988
You dared me to dream as you dared all of us to dream. Your loss is impenetrable silence.
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Graham Wilkinson
David Mankaba
Philip Munro
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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