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The Names Project AIDS Candlelight Memorial March, 1992

In 1986, Cleve Jones of San Francisco stitched a quilt panel to memorialize a friend he had lost to AIDS. This began one of the world’s largest memorials for those who died from AIDS. By 1992, the AIDS Memorial Quilt had a panel from each state in the country. By 2012, the quilt had grown to more than 48,000 panels.

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    Whitman-Walker Clinic
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Black and white photograph of a candle burning on a table next to a drawing of planet Earth.
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    The NAMES Project AIDS Candlelight Memorial March

    Join Liza Minnelli, Joel Grey, Patti Austin, Gay Mens Chorus of Washington, Cleve Jones, founder of the NAMES Project, Jim Graham and Riley Temple of Whitman-Walker Clinic, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton and Caitlin Ryan, Chief, DC Agency for HIV/AIDS.

    6:00 pm-Gather at the Ellipse

    March from tlm Ellipse to the Lincoln Memorial for ceremony

    Limited candles available— please bring your own, along with a holder

    Saturday, October 10, 1992

    Washington, DC

    Sponsored by:

    Whitman -Walker Clinic, Inc

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