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Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt

AIDS Memorial Quilt turns 25 as fight against the disease continues

Health & Medicine

The first panel for the AIDS Memorial Quilt was created in 1987 by a gay rights activist in San Francisco. Since then, 100,000 people have sewn more than 48,000 panels that depict the lives of loved ones lost to the disease.

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