UK AIDS Quilt 022
This is Quilt 022 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 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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Rev Virgil Hall
Josh Marcroft
'I love you, you were a bastard but beautiful'...listen here and read below from Josh's partner Martin
Orange was Josh's favourite colour, he was cremated in an orange shirt
Josh joked he would come back and haunt Martin if he died
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Andrew Morrison
Dale Robertson Oakes
When Dale enters a room,
EVERYONE knows he's arrived...
He moves with a dancer's grace, head up and chin leading
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Chris Hartley
Chris met Vince in a leather bar, 21st November 1981, listen to Vince's story of how they met...
'You're getting me a lager then? Get to the bar...
We lived together for almost six years in an open relationship
Chris taught in a large multi racial school in little Ilford
Chris got a confirmed diagnosis the day the UK government launched its 'Iceberg' campaign
AIDS took his life, but not his love.
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Colvin
André (Booie)
Booie's family have requested any information we have about him not to be made public.
Jerry Davies
Maggie and Alison Crowe of Nottingham made this panel for their cousin Jerry
Jerry was an active member of the Metropolitan Community Church in Sydney.
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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