Word: quilts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...comes down to the AIDS quilt, that collection of nearly 50,000 squares of fabric devoted to the dead. Gays have always been divided on this display. While some find the quilt a touching memorial and a useful political tool, others consider it a cemetery designed by the Ladies' Home Journal. I joined the landmark gay march on Washington in 1993, as a snob who had tended to avoid such gung-ho events, wary of all that coerced hugging. But that year everyone went. Too many people had died, and solidarity was no longer merely a buzzword. The quilt...
...quilt was displayed again this year in Washington, to considerable crowds. Organizers announced that this might be the last time a space could be found large enough to contain the majority of the panels. I didn't go, out of laziness and some vile sense of been-there-seen-that. I can't imagine a world without AIDS. Gay people have been marked, although I disagree with neo-con gay activists who claim that AIDS has taught gay people responsibility, as if, prior to the plague, homos were all shiftless and madcap. What AIDS has done is to make...
...overwhelmingly acquired through abnormal sexual practices." If he means to include the "abnormal" sexual practice of heterosexuality, then his statement is correct. While there are more homosexuals with AIDS, heterosexual young adults are the fastest-rising group of HIV carriers. This means that within 10 years, the AIDS Memorial Quilt will be overwhelmingly covered with the names of our heterosexual contemporaries and friends...
AIDS is not a gay disease. Anyone can become infected. "Abnormal sexual behavior" is not the cause of AIDS; ignorance and inadequate sex education might be more appropriate enemies. It is ridiculous, uneducated and extremely homophobic to ally the two issues of AIDS and homosexuality. The AIDS Memorial Quilt is not about homosexuality; it is about mourning remembrance and grief. Viewing the quilt, one can see a piece in remembrance of an infant next to one remembering an 85-year-old grandmother next to one remembering a 26-year-old Chicano...
...McFadden saying that those who have died of AIDS are not worthy of being commemorated? The AIDS epidemic is a pandemic; quoting the Commemorative Program from the AIDS Memorial Quilt, "18.5 million adults are living with HIV." We cannot marginalize those affected by AIDS any longer...