At a World AIDS Day event Wednesday evening, iconic HIV activist Cleve Jones was honored with the National AIDS Memorial Lifetime of Commitment Award.
It was recognition of Jones' work as the creator of the AIDS Memorial Quilt which helped change the course of the deadly disease.
Living in the Castro District in the late 1970's the street kid became a protégé of Supervisor Harvey Milk, the state's first openly gay elected official. But then AIDS began its deadly attack on the gay community. From that idea, the AIDS Memorial Quilt was born. Cleve and two friends, Mike Smith and Gert McMullin, began sewing the first panels. Word got out, and soon San Francisco was inundated with panels sent by grieving family members.
"What it did was, each one of those quilts was a human loss. And it was a human loss felt by the people who experienced that loss," said Bunn."It changed how anyone who was a skeptic in those days looked at this as anything other than a human loss."
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