UK AIDS Quilt 010
This is Quilt 010 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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Keith Haring
Keith Allen Haring was an American artist whose pop art emerged from the New York City graffiti subculture of the 1980s. His animated imagery has "become a widely recognised visual language"
Keith Haring
An explosion of colour and figures by Keith Haring
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Sandy
'I hope that one day soon I will be able to be with the quilt again.'
Listen to a letter from Russell who created the panel for his partner Sandy.
A good friend saw the Quilt in Hyde Park. She said it was so gentle and moving.
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Randy
'Me, a gay man, you a gay-bashing hells angel. An unlikely friendship.'
Listen to the tribute by Randy's friend Brad.
Your buddies from the Hell's Angels didn't want to know you because you had AIDS
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Terry
Terry was a dedicated community psychiatric nurse.
'I shan't come to Pride again, last year I saw too many faces that weren't there'
Listen to memories of his friend David who made the panel.
I always thought of death as a door into darkness. Now I see it's a doorway through the dark.
No longer there, but not unseen
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Richard
Rodney
'I will always be angry I never got to say goodbye.'
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Les
Howard Sasportas
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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