Thank you to our Quilt partners for hosting this statewide display. Click on the organization name to visit its display or scroll down to view all the Quilt displays. Each Quilt display has the corresponding block numbers and the thumbnail images can be enlarged by clicking on them for a closer look at the details of the panels. A curated story is provided by each Quilt host, linking to their organization website to learn more about their work in the community. See the full list of displays by state and territory.
Display Hosts: Quest Diagnostics • Inland Empire HIV Planning Council • UC San Diego • San Francisco Community Health Center
• National AIDS Memorial • Chevron California • Skyline College • Berkeley Patients Group • Hemophilia Foundation of Southern California
• Golden Gate University • Blue Shield of California • Gilead D# 1 • Gilead D# 2 • Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation
• Stories: The AIDS Monument • San Francisco AIDS Foundation • Cleve Jones co founder AIDS Memorial Quilt • Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi
• Sha’ar Zahav • Los Angeles LGBT Center • Splunk Inc. • San Francisco Giants • Morrison & Foerster LLP • Until There's a Cure • Wells Fargo • APLA Health • Synthego
Display Host: Quest Diagnostics - Across the country, “Team Quest” actively participates in AIDS walks, promotes AIDS and HIV education, and provides important testing to help people know how to stay healthy, and to help end this epidemic. Many of our 47,000 employees have been personally impacted by AIDS and HIV and as an organization, we stand with our Quest team to honor their stories and lift up the stories of others. Together, we redouble our commitment to raising awareness and honoring those we’ve lost, in proud partnership with National AIDS Memorial, who amplifies our collective voice and impact.
Display Host: Inland Empire HIV Planning Council - The mission of the Inland Empire HIV Planning Council is to maintain the optimum health of all those living with HIV/AIDS in Riverside and San Bernardino Counties through the development and implementation of a comprehensive, consumer-centered continuum of care.
The purpose of the Council is to ensure the development of a client-centered, comprehensive continuum of care for persons living with HIV disease (PLWH) throughout the Inland Region. In doing so, the Council provides effective planning for the region and promotes development of HIV/AIDS health services, personnel, and facilities that meet identified health and support service needs in a cost-effective manner, reduce inefficiencies, and address the needs of uninsured, underinsured, and low-income HIV infected individuals. The Quilt sections on display include panels that represent each geographic area and a historical snapshot of the impact of HIV/AIDS in our community and partnerships in providing important educational resources for the public about HIV/AIDS in the Inland Region. For more information on the display please visit our website at www.iehpc.org or https://www.facebook.com/InlandEmpireHIVPlanningCouncil/ .
Display Host: UC San Diego - UC San Diego’s campus education around HIV/AIDS first began with the student organization Student Health Advocates (SHA), with the support of Health Promotion Services, in the early 1990s as the AIDS pandemic swept across the world. This work still continues, with our World AIDS Day planning committee forming in 2002. Comprised of faculty, staff, and students, a hallmark of the committee is bringing the AIDS Memorial Quilt each year to UC San Diego’s campus. This year our virtual space for highlighting the Quilt reflects blocks created by those at UC San Diego, the quilt pieces of some of those in our region, and the impact HIV/AIDS has had on our world.
Display Host: San Francisco Community Health Center - San Francisco Community Health Center was founded in 1987 by the Asian and Pacific Islander community – GAPA Community HIV Project, Asian AIDS Project, and Living Well Project – in direct response to the HIV epidemic. Because of the strength and impact of our HIV programs, we were called forth when Tenderloin Health, a merger of TARC and Continuum, closed its doors in 2012 and we assumed care for hundreds of their clients living with HIV. Our Tenderloin Area HIV Center of Excellence (TACE) is our life-affirming program that ensures no one living with HIV is ever left behind. In 2019, our long-standing national HIV Capacity Building Assistance program opened its new co-location at Howard Brown Health in Chicago. Our curated virtual Quilt display reflects a few of the beautiful and fierce warriors, activists, family members, and friends we have lost.
Display Host: National AIDS Memorial - This virtual display has been curated by the staff on the National AIDS Memorial, stewards of the National AIDS Memorial Grove and the AIDS Memorial Quilt. It is a loving tribute you are dearest friends, colleagues and loved one lost in the battle against HIV/AIDS. Each of these blocks carries within it the fond memories of happy times, the love that sustains and nurtures us still, and the power and drive to continue our work.
Display Host: Chevron California - At Chevron, we work to enable human progress with affordable, reliable, cleaner energy. We are an energy company, but our investments in communities’ health, education and economic development demonstrate our commitment to sustainable development to create prosperity now and for future generations. For decades, Chevron has supported partners and programs to empower individuals and communities to prevent disease, support health system strength, improve health equity and security, and build prosperous communities. This includes the National AIDS Memorial where we support its Surviving Voices storytelling initiative and World AIDS Day programming. Through these symbols, the power of engagement and strengthening our individual, system and organizational resilience, we will build stronger, healthier, safer and more prosperous communities. Chevron was the first oil and gas company to implement a global HIV/AIDS policy, and since 2008, we have invested over $70 million in the fight against this and other deadly diseases. Chevron is proud to be a display host for this important virtual exhibition, curating displays for California, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. Throughout the AIDS crisis Chevron employees have been making Quilt panels to honor employees and loved ones lost to AIDS. Each World AIDS Day our employees pick a theme and together they sew with passion, love and with hope that we one day will find a cure. In this display, we feature four of those Chevron Quilt panels that were hand-made by our team members, as well as four Quilt blocks that are part of the AIDS Memorial Quilt.
Display Host: Skyline College - Skyline College Library implements student-centered programming that exposes students to diverse perspectives; deepens their understanding of social justice issues; and allows them to build community while engaging with the wider world. The Library programming is planned around themes such as culture; gender; sexuality; racial justice; symbolic violence; restorative justice; health; sustainability; and right to knowledge. In 2019, the Skyline College Library displayed a block of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in the library to commemorate World AIDS Day. This year we continue to create a digital space for our campus community to show support for people living with and affected by HIV and to remember those who lost their lives to AIDS by participating as a virtual display host of the AIDS Memorial Quilt.
Display Host: Berkeley Patients Group - Berkeley Patients Group, the nation's oldest cannabis dispensary founded in 1999, is celebrating 20 years of helping Berkeley by committing a total of $1 Million in charitable donations to be shared among 10 community partners over the next ten years, including the Pacific Center, Berkeley's resource for LGBTQ+ services. For our virtual display we chose to honor several long-term volunteers who have passed as well as clients we helped at end of life.
Display Host: Hemophilia Foundation of Southern California - The Hemophilia Foundation of Southern California is the leading resource for those affected by bleeding disorders in Southern California. Founded in 1954, our organization serves nine countie in the region -- Kern, Los Angeles, Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Inyo. We are dedicated to improving the quality of life and building community for those living with inherited bleeding disorders in Southern California through quality programs and services. We are honored to have a display as part of this important exhibition. In our display, we share some panels honoring lives lost to Hemophilia and remember all who have been tragically taken by this devastating disease.
Display Host: Golden Gate University - Located in the heart of San Francisco, Golden Gate University is an institution devoted to utilizing education to elevate and advance students from every race, religion, sexual orientation, and gender identity. For more than a century we have served students from across California and the nation, allowing them to obtain undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees in law, business, tax. accounting and other fields. We remember and honor all of those in our GGU community who were lost to or impacted by the AIDS epidemic, including those memorialized in this virtual display. We commit to being the kind of institution that celebrates and serves all communities and advances justice and opportunity through education.
Display Host: Blue Shield of California - Blue Shield of California strives to create a healthcare system worthy of its family and friends that is sustainably affordable. Blue Shield of California is a tax-paying, nonprofit, independent member of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association with over four million members, 6,800 employees and more than $20 billion in annual revenues. Founded in 1939 in San Francisco and now headquartered in Oakland, Blue Shield of California and its affiliates provide health, dental, vision, Medicaid and Medicare healthcare service plans in California. The company has contributed more than $500 million to the Blue Shield of California Foundation since 2002 to have an impact on California communities. Our company and employees are proud to host this virtual display as part of this exhibition, which we selected because they include names of colleagues, friends and loved ones from California who we have lost to AIDS.
Display Host: Gilead D# 1 - Through our longstanding support of the National AIDS Memorial and the AIDS Memorial Quilt, Gilead has been inspired by the love, commitment and passion of one of the Quilt’s co-founders -- Gert McMullin – who is also referred to as the “Mother” of the AIDS Quilt. For this virtual display, we asked Gert to select Quilt panels with special meaning to her. We are so touched that she agreed to honor some of her dear friends and loved ones. We are also grateful for her love and care for the Quilt all these years and for never leaving the side of her “boys”, even as the Quilt traveled to Atlanta for 20 years and is now back in San Francisco, where the first panels were made nearly 35 years ago. CLICK HERE for a touching narrative written by Gert.
Display Host: Gilead D# 2 - Gilead is proud to be a long-standing partner of the National AIDS Memorial and a major sponsor of the AIDS Memorial Quilt Virtual Exhibition and World AIDS Day 2020. Last year Gilead provided a $2.4 million grant to support the programs of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, including its move to San Francisco under the stewardship of the National AIDS Memorial. The Quilt is a symbol of hope, remembrance and resilience. This virtual display includes Quilt panels we selected that honor friends, colleagues and loved ones lost to AIDS, whose names are forever remembered in our beloved Quilt.
Display Host: Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation - The Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation (AIISF) is one of the primary nonprofit partners that works the Angel Island State Park to preserve the buildings, histories, and stories related to the former US Immigration Station at Angel Island. Between 1910-1940, over 500,000 persons from 80 different countries --primarily Asians and Pacific Islanders due to the nation’s exclusionary immigration policies-- were detained, interrogated, and/or quarantined on Angel Island.In early 2021, the Angel Island Immigration Museum will open in the former hospital building on the site. One of the museum’s exhibits focuses on how various diseases and medical conditions (including AIDS) have historically been used to justify certain immigrants’ exclusion from the US.Visit www.aiisf.org for more information and check out our virtual exhibitions at www.aiisf.org/gallery.
Display Host: Stories: The AIDS Monument - STORIES: The AIDS Monument remembers those we lost, those who survived, the protests and vigils, the armies of caregivers, and the resilience of our spirit; celebrates the brave leaders who step up when others step away; and educates about lessons learned to strengthen future generations. The Monument will be in West Hollywood Park, the most prominent public space in the City. It will be a work of art with global significance, and an iconic landmark for the City of West Hollywood, CA. For more information and to get involved, please go to www.aidsmonument.org
Display Host: San Francisco AIDS Foundation - San Francisco AIDS Foundation promotes health, wellness, and social justice for communities most impacted by HIV, through sexual health and substance use services, advocacy, and community partnerships. Panels for this virtual quilt display were selected by members of the Elizabeth Taylor 50-Plus Network, a program for long-term HIV survivors. Additionally, a panel designed by Black Brothers Esteem (BBE), a social support program for African American men, is being displayed for the first time. The panels here represent lovers, partners, friends and colleagues who inspired us greatly and who motivate us still today to build a future where health justice is achieved for all people living with or at risk for HIV.
Display Host: Cleve Jones co founder AIDS Memorial Quilt - The AIDS Memorial Quilt was conceived by long-time San Francisco gay rights activist Cleve Jones. Since the 1978 assassinations of gay San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone, Jones had helped organize an annual candlelight march honoring these men. While planning the 1985 march, he learned that more than 1,000 San Franciscans had been lost to AIDS. He asked each of his fellow marchers to write on placards the names of friends and loved ones who had died of AIDS-related complications. At the end of the march, Jones and others stood on ladders taping these placards to the walls of the San Francisco Federal Building. The wall of names looked like a patchwork quilt. Inspired by this sight, Jones and friends made plans for a larger memorial. A little over a year later, he created the first panel for the AIDS Memorial Quilt in memory of his friend Marvin Feldman, which is featured in this virtual display. Today, the Quilt is a visual reminder of the AIDS pandemic and continues as the largest ongoing community art project in the world. Additional panels for this virtual display include friends and loved ones from the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.
Display Host: Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi - For more than 30 years, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi has worked courageously to advance the issue of HIV/AIDS, supporting major funding, research and programs that have been critically important to the advancements and improvement of the quality of life for those living with the disease. In 1996 she successfully spearheaded the passage of legislation that was signed by President Bill Clinton designating San Francisco’s AIDS Memorial Grove, as a national memorial. In 2019, Speaker Pelosi worked together with Congressman John Lewis to relocate the AIDS Memorial Quilt back to San Francisco under the care and stewardship of the National AIDS Memorial. This virtual Quilt display honors loved ones lost in San Francisco to AIDS and organizations that have cared for so many. Two panels have special meaning, one created by Speaker Pelosi in honor of her niece Susan Piracci Roggio and another panel made by Dan Bartley, honors Scott Douglas, who was a dear friend.
Display Host: Sha’ar Zahav - Sha’ar Zahav, translation Golden Gate, is a progressive, egalitarian Jewish community, established in 1977 to welcome LGBTQ Jews and everyone. Sha’ar Zahav maintains shared clergy and member relationships in service leading, lifecycles, childhood and adult religious education, and social activities. During the height of AIDS, Sha’ar Zahav provided monthly Kaiser Hospital brunches for patients, families, and staff, and supported its own ill and dying members, and women donated blood. Its acclaimed cookbook, “Out of our Kitchen Closets,” was published as a fundraiser for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, which culminated in a donation of over $10,000 to this organization. Annual donations from its AIDS Fund supported Project Open Hand and Chicken Soupers. Sha’ar Zahav continues social activism through its Social Action and Environmental Justice Committees.
Display Host: Los Angeles LGBT Center - Since the earliest days of the epidemic, the Los Angeles LGBT Center has been at the vanguard in the fight against HIV and AIDS and provides leading-edge medical care today for people living with the disease. In reaction to the growing crisis of a “gay cancer” among gay and bisexual men, the Center (known then as the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center) set up a hotline in 1982 to answer people’s questions. Three years later, the Center opened California’s first HIV testing site which quickly became the nation’s largest. Through our Jeffrey Goodman Special Care Clinic, the Center today provides a holistic approach to treatment and helps more than 3,920 clients annually with all aspects of managing their lives with HIV. No organization offers a wider and more comprehensive range of services for people living with HIV. For more information about the Los Angeles LGBT Center, visit lalgbtcenter.org
Display Host: Splunk Inc. - At Splunk, we believe that data can deliver clarity, accelerate positive change, strengthen and lift up communities, and create a more just world. This virtual display was curated by members of the Pride at Splunk Employee Resource group, whose mission is to advocate for and with LGBTQ+ Splunkers, ensure company-wide policies are inclusive of sexual/gender diversity, provide educational and social opportunities to the Splunk community to learn about LGBTQ+ topics, and encourage the community to support queer Splunkers. Pride at Splunk honors those who have lost their lives to AIDS within our Splunk community and the communities where we work. We stand in solidarity with those on the frontlines fighting for health and social justice to combat stigma, fear, and discrimination. Click here to hear from Splunk Employees Rosie Sennett and Tony Vincent about their connections to the Quilt.
Display Host: San Francisco Giants - The San Francisco Giants became the first-ever professional sports team to raise awareness for HIV/AIDS back in 1994. For the past 27 years, the Giants and Giants Community Fund have worked together with many community partners, including the Until There’s A Cure Foundation, to devote a game each season to keep HIV/AIDS in the forefront until a cure is ultimately found. Our Quilt display honors members of our extended Giants family who have lost their lives to HIV/AIDS.
Display Host: Morrison & Foerster LLP - Morrison & Foerster – MoFo is proud not only to provide top-quality legal services to financial institutions, Fortune 100 companies, and technology and life sciences companies around the world, but also to provide impactful pro bono services for people deprived of access to justice. MoFo was there from the very beginning of the AIDS crisis, and we have maintained our long-standing partnerships with organizations including San Francisco AIDS Foundation and AIDS Legal Referral Panel. We also provide pro bono representation to organizations performing research and seeking a cure for HIV/AIDS, including Cure HIV and the Research Foundation to Cure AIDS. In our support for the AIDS Memorial Quilt this year, we recognize our collective responsibility to advocate for communities most impacted by HIV, honor our partners on the frontlines battling HIV/AIDS, and remember those in our MoFo family who were lost to the epidemic.
Display Host: Until There's a Cure - Until There’s A Cure® Foundation is a national organization dedicated to eradicating HIV/AIDS by raising awareness and funds to combat this pandemic. Our dream is that no one else will become infected with HIV. For those who are HIV positive, we are dedicated on their behalf to educating all people about the virus and the overwhelming need for love and compassion in fighting this pandemic. Our goal is to fund prevention education, care services, and vaccine development, as well as to increase public awareness of AIDS. We remember those who fought the war called AIDS. May their memories be a blessing.
Display Host: Wells Fargo - Wells Fargo is proud to be a long-standing supporter of San Francisco World AIDS Day since its inception. It remains important for us to be involved because we know what impact HIV/AIDS has had on our own team members and the communities we serve. Across the country, Wells Fargo team members donate time and money to support local organizations, including the San Francisco-based Shanti Project, which provides services to people with terminal, life-threatening, or disabling illnesses or conditions. Furthermore, some team members participate in AIDS walks, the AIDS/LifeCycle Bike Ride, and volunteer to serve children affected by HIV/AIDS. The Wells Fargo Foundation’ philanthropic strategy is anchored around housing affordability, small business growth and financial health, in addition to supporting nonprofits that specifically address the needs of local markets.Wells Fargo was one of the first companies to donate to HIV/AIDS research and treatment organizations and we are honored to be a sponsor for this important virtual exhibition.
Display Host: APLA Health - APLA Health was founded in 1983 as AIDS Project Los Angeles as a response to the AIDS epidemic in Los Angeles County. Since the very beginning we knew that education and resources needed to be invested and created so our community in order to stop the deadly virus. In 2013, AIDS Project Los Angeles became the first AIDS service organization in the country to become a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) and officially became APLA Health. Now, we provide everyone with the resources they need to stop the spread of the virus in APLA Health. Educational tools like U=U are helping us fight stigma, get more people tested, and connect those who need it with medical care. With PrEP, we’re able to stop the virus from spreading to even more individual. Above all, we are here to provide care, support and education for our community to improve the health of everyone.
Display Host: Synthego - Mission Statement: Prism’s mission is to be Synthego’s established community that provides a network of support for LGBTQ+ employees and their allies, promotes and advocates for community members within Synthego, and contributes to Synthego’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Purpose: Prism exists to celebrate, develop, and empower an inclusive community for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer employees at Synthego. While this is an LGBTQ-focused group, everyone is welcome; all that is required is an open mind and a desire to belong.
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INTERACTIVE AIDS QUILT
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HISTORY OF THE QUILT
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REFLECTIONS FROM CLEVE
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