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: DFW Continuum of Care Part 1 • DFW Continuum of Care Part 2 • Vivent Health Austin
• Chevron Texas • AIDS Foundation Houston, Inc • AIDS Quilt Touch team at UT Dallas
• Lone Star Bleeding Disorders Foundation • CommUnityCare Health Centers
Display Host: Cathedral of Hope, The Greg Dollgener Memorial AIDS Fund, Legal Hospice of Texas, Prism Health North Texas & Abounding Prosperity, Inc - These Dallas agencies have been on the front lines of the HIV/AIDS fight for over 50 years and continue to be a resource to those in need of critical support today. Together we honor the lives of so many Texans who have succumbed to AIDS.
Display Host: Access & Information Network, AIDS Services Dallas, Resource Center & SMU’s Simmons School of Education and Human Development and Legacy - These Dallas agencies have been on the front lines of the HIV/AIDS fight for over 50 years and continue to be a resource to those in need of critical support today: Access & Information Network, AIDS Services Dallas, Resource Center, SMU’s Simmons School of Education and Human Development and Legacy. We are proud to come together today to offer a virtual Quilt display honoring our friends and collegues in the fight against AIDS.
Display Host: Vivent Health Austin - In 2020, Vivent Health announced a long-term partnership with the National AIDS Memorial as the Premier National Community Partner of the AIDS Memorial Quilt to support Quilt programs and educational activities, including this virtual Quilt exhibition. Vivent Health is currently displaying ten blocks of the Quilt at Vivent Health offices in six cities in Colorado, Missouri, Texas and Wisconsin. The Quilt sections for this virtual display include panels with names of loved from Texas who we lost to AIDS who are honored and remembered through the beauty of the Quilt.As part of the AIDS Memorial Quilt Virtual Exhibition and Display Program, Vivent Health is hosting a selection of Quilt blocks from the State of Texas. These serve as a powerful remembrance of the people whose lives were once deeply woven into the fabric of their communities. Each panel tells a unique story — a testament to the incredible scope of personal and collective loss. Each story inspires us, to work toward a common goal of making HIV history and living in a world without AIDS.
Display Host: Chevron Texas - 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: AIDS Foundation Houston, Inc - AIDS Foundation Houston (AFH) has been working to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic in our community since 1982, when we became the first organization in Texas dedicated to HIV services and prevention. Our vision is to create a community where HIV is stigma-free and rare, and people have equitable access to care. AFH is proud to be a display host for the 2020 AIDS Memorial Quilt and will reveal our panels to the public during our annual World AIDS Day event, which will be held virtually on December 1 and will honor Quilt founder Cleve Jones. Our 2020 display features hand-selected panels of the Quilt that honor friends, colleagues and loved ones from the Houston area who we lost to AIDS.
Display Host: AIDS Quilt Touch team at UT Dallas - Lanny Smith (#3876) and Jason Beach (#1788), Dale’s high-school friends from Dallas, shared the unmatchable experience of being Texan teen-agers in the early 70s. Chris Parcel’s panel (#2315) was exactingly created based a portrait by art-photographer Billy Howard when Chris was still alive. Fabric from Chris’ shirt, jeans, and couch cover are lovingly stitched into his panel. One of the 60 portraits included in Billy’s book, Epitaphs for the Living (1989), Chris’s epitaph, written in his own hand, begins: “We are all born terminal.” The four blocks (#4663, #4664, #4665, #4666) celebrate the exuberance of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence who died in the mid-1990s. Four blocks displayed in a square create a super-block featuring a beautiful gold lamé sun, each sister a golden ray
Display Host: Lone Star Bleeding Disorders Foundation - The Lone Star Bleeding Disorders Foundation, formerly known as the Lone Star Chapter of the National Hemophilia Foundation, is dedicated to improving the quality of life for South Texans affected by rare bleeding disorders through education, advocacy efforts to ensure access to care, supporting research for better treatments and a cure, and raising public awareness. We are excited to participate with the National AIDS Memorial in this virtual quilt, remembering all those we tragically lost to HIV/AIDS. They will never be forgotten.
Display Host: CommUnityCare Health Centers - CommUnityCare has provided care to Central Texans living with HIV for over 30 years. Our care teams have listened to, cared for, and held the hands of countless Texans who have lost their battle with HIV. Our teams have also seen patients on the brink of death become strong, and have seen those same patients become leaders and champions for health access and equity. While there have been vast successes in our battle against HIV, we know there is still much work to be done. Sponsoring the panels of the National Memorial AIDS Quilt reminds us of those we have lost and inspires us to keep going – to end HIV and to keep fighting through the current Covid-19 pandemic.
INTERACTIVE AIDS QUILT
Search the AIDS Memorial Quilt, view each panel, search for a friend or loved one and share
your story through our social media channels - learn more
HISTORY OF THE QUILT
Conceived in 1985 by long-time San Francisco gay rights activist Cleve Jones - learn more
REFLECTIONS FROM CLEVE
Conceived in 1985 by long-time San Francisco gay rights activist Cleve Jones- watch the video
2020/40 STORIES
Memories of individuals who died of AIDS, stories of survivors and caregivers and advocates, and the broader story of the AIDS epidemic - learn more
SUPPORT THE MEMORIAL
Our vision is that never again will a community be harmed because of fear, silence, discrimination, or stigma. - Donate now
WORLD AIDS DAY
Powerful voices from AIDS and Covid-19 pandemics. Remembering lost loved ones and celebrating their lives - event details