UK AIDS Quilt 032
This is Quilt 032 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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Nureyev
Rudolf Nureyev was a Russian ballet dancer who defected to the west in 1961. He became principal dancer with The Royal Ballet and famously partnered Dame Margot Fonteyn
Brian Bethune-Jones
Brian's wife Trisha made this panel, listen to her story.
Brian died on 14th August 1993
Brian always said if he had his time again, he would come back as a bird.The poem on the quilt was written by Brian
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Max Gordon
Eric,Tony, Serge, Gellof, Vinni
Keith
Michael Smith
Mark Freeman
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.
