"During the AIDS crisis, I could go and do something," says chief coordinator Gert McMullin. "But now, I can't. I'm not used to sitting around and not helping people." Gert McMullin has been with the ...

Today, the AIDS Memorial Quilt numbers more than 50,000 panels that honor the lives of some 105,000 people who died of AIDS. Photo by Rommel Demano/Getty Images In 1985, gay rights activist Cleve ...

Gert McMullin sewing masks (photo by Mike Smith, courtesy Bay Area Community Services) Gert McMullin has never been one to idle in times of crisis. When the HIV and AIDS pandemic first overtook the ...

The AIDS Memorial Quilt, spread out on the National Mall. Image courtesy of The NAMES Project Foundation. It would take more than 33 days to view the entire AIDS Memorial Quilt—if you spent only one ...

Thirty-five years ago, Cleve Jones had an idea to memorialize lives lost to AIDS — and get the country's attention Today the AIDS Memorial Quilt, which recently returned to San Francisco after 20 ...

Close to 50,000 panels that make up the AIDS Memorial Quilt are moving from Atlanta to the Bay Area. About 54 tons worth. The project began thirty-three years ago and now memorializes over 105,000 ...

All 50,000 panels and 54 tons of the NAMES Project’s AIDS Memorial Quilt are going to be moved from its current storage in Atlanta to San Francisco where its first panels were initially created by ...

The AIDS Memorial Quilt is getting a new home and returning to the place where it was created. The famed quilt is moving from Atlanta back to San Francisco, where it will take up permanent residence.

STUDIO CITY, Calif. (KABC) -- A 13-year-old Studio City girl has created a COVID Memorial Quilt to remember the victims who have died from the virus. It is reminiscent of the AIDS Memorial Quilt. The ...

How does one go about collecting an epidemic? A disease is not a tangible entity like a stethoscope or a medicine bottle. Smithsonian curators have always been interested in the history of disease: ...

The AIDS Memorial Quilt went on public display Tuesday at the Empire State Plaza Convention Center. The quilts will be displayed through Thursday with a closing ceremony to be held at 3 p.m. Thursday.

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- The San Francisco-based National AIDS Memorial organization this week announced a 50-state AIDS Memorial Quilt virtual exhibition, which will run from Nov. 16 to March 31, ...