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.

UK AIDS Quilt at St PaulsAIDS Quilt UK

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

AIDS Quilt 10AIDS Quilt UK

010 Sandy
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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.

AIDS Quilt 10 Letter from Russell, From the collection of: AIDS Quilt UK
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A good friend saw the Quilt in Hyde Park. She said it was so gentle and moving.

AIDS Quilt 10AIDS Quilt UK

010 Randy
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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.

AIDS Quilt 10 letter from Brad, From the collection of: AIDS Quilt UK
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Your buddies from the Hell's Angels didn't want to know you because you had AIDS

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010 Terry
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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.

AIDS Quilt 10 Terry, From the collection of: AIDS Quilt UK
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I always thought of death as a door into darkness. Now I see it's a doorway through the dark.

AIDS Quilt 10 a poem for Terry, From the collection of: AIDS Quilt UK
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No longer there, but not unseen

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Richard

010 Rodney
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Rodney

'I will always be angry I never got to say goodbye.'

AIDS Quilt 10 Brad's note on Rodney, From the collection of: AIDS Quilt UK
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AIDS Quilt 10AIDS Quilt UK

Les

Howard Sasportas

Credits: Story

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. 

Credits: All media
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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