During the 1980’s the world was evolving, everything seemed possible as everything was being created. Shows to watch your favorite musician play their top hits, creation of cell phones to keep in touch with everyone. It was a new era for America, which seemed as if nothing could go wrong. In 1981 an unknown disease strikes five gay men. No one knew about this disease and what it was capable of doing to America. Soon after this report went public, doctors across the country had people fleeting in with similar cases to the five gay men. This soon became known as AIDS (HIV). A disease that was transmitted from five gay men, to an entire population. Many people pointed fingers at the gays for this disease until a famous actor was then diagnosed
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Mothers, fathers, daughters, sons, friends, they were all passing from a disease that began to spread very easily and no cure for it. AIDS activist Cleve Jones creates the first memorial for people that have passed away from AIDS by creating a memorial quilt. More than 48,000 individuals were sewn together by their loved ones. Marches were held for all the people that lost their lives, and candlelight’s (www.aidsquilt.org, 2015). Jones had planned for larger memorials for these individuals. IN 1986, AIDS was officially called Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). After this call, parents and schools started talking about more open discussions on HIV and wanted to educated more people about the deathly …show more content…
This drew over half a million of people. The display featured about 1,920 4x8 panels of individuals who have passed away. The popularity of the quilt lead to a four month tour, which the tour collect nearly $500,000-which all the profits went to AIDS organizations. The Quilt was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in 1989 and remains the largest community art project in the world (www.aidsquilt.org, 2015). The purpose of the quilt was to send awareness across the country about AIDS and the deadly effects it has on
Mothers, fathers, daughters, sons, friends, they were all passing from a disease that began to spread very easily and no cure for it. AIDS activist Cleve Jones creates the first memorial for people that have passed away from AIDS by creating a memorial quilt. More than 48,000 individuals were sewn together by their loved ones. Marches were held for all the people that lost their lives, and candlelight’s (www.aidsquilt.org, 2015). Jones had planned for larger memorials for these individuals. IN 1986, AIDS was officially called Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). After this call, parents and schools started talking about more open discussions on HIV and wanted to educated more people about the deathly …show more content…
This drew over half a million of people. The display featured about 1,920 4x8 panels of individuals who have passed away. The popularity of the quilt lead to a four month tour, which the tour collect nearly $500,000-which all the profits went to AIDS organizations. The Quilt was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in 1989 and remains the largest community art project in the world (www.aidsquilt.org, 2015). The purpose of the quilt was to send awareness across the country about AIDS and the deadly effects it has on