Podcasts about aids memorial quilt

America is under attack by the wolves in the federal government who are chewing it apart. As the nation spirals into confusion and despair, we are left wondering—why does it feel like no one is fighting back?As Harvey Milk said, “Get out of the bars and into the streets!” Now more than ever, we need to step away from our screens, show up in public spaces, and organize. In the absence of leadership, it's up to all of us to lead.As a protégé of Harvey Milk, Cleve Jones became a key figure in the gay rights movement in the ‘70s and he became the creator of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, one of history's most powerful public memorials. Cleve's activism spans decades, from fighting the Reagan administration's neglect of the AIDS crisis to today's labor rights battles.Listen as we take a look at: • AIDS denialist Robert Kennedy Jr. as Trump's Secretary of Health.• Why language matters, let's stop calling Democrats "Dems."• Why grassroots movements need to come out of the closet to organize effectively.

Thank you for listening to this track produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join Tim Roberts, Curator at The David Roche Foundation and researcher of LGBTQ+ memory, as he discusses the AIDS memorial quilt on display in Radical Textiles. For more information visit agsa.sa.gov.au Photo: Rob Spark

The Canadian AIDS Memorial Quilt is an icon of AIDS activism and an important symbol to memorialize those who died of the disease. One of its panel will be on display in Saint John for the first time this month. James Edwards of AIDS New Brunswick speaks with host Steven Webb about the significance of this quilt.

Periodically, the crew at I'm Feeling Queer Today will share episodes from like-minded podcasts that they love.Alex Masse presents our very first feed swap, and we are honored to be sharing a special edition episode from the Queer News, an intersectional approach to a weekly news podcast where race & sexuality meet politics, entertainment and culture.This episode is called Change the Pattern: The AIDS Quilt Travels the South with Purpose, and you'll get to hear Anna share her experience covering the 35th Anniversary of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in San Francisco, and the emotional impact of viewing it up close and personal for the first time.Further, the episode highlights the staggering reality that, while the South comprises only 38% of the US population, it represents over HALF of all new HIV diagnoses.You'll also learn about the Call My Name Project, a program that ensures the stories of Black and Brown lives lost to HIV/AIDS are honored with panels on the AIDS Memorial Quilt.Now you may be asking why the South? The South comprises 38% of the U.S. population but it represents over half, yes over half at 52% of all new HIV diagnoses. Let me drop another stat on you. Out of the 17 states defined as being in the South by the U.S. Census; 13 of them have HIV-Specific Criminal Laws or Statutes on the books & 11 of them have actually prosecuted people for living with HIV. HIV Criminalization is still real. I'm sharing these stats because you need to know. I didn't know and we must change the pattern.CONTENT/CONTENT WARNINGS00:00 – Welcome & Intro 00:34 – Palm Springs Ad 01:23 – Purple Tie Affair 01:52 – Change The Pattern 04:02 – Jada 04:47 – Call My Name 05:52 – SLR 09:16 – The Quilt 10:56 – Mark Your Calendars 12:39 – OutroJoin the QCrew & Support the Queer News podcast https://bit.ly/3L3Ng66

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We're ending season 5 with the second part of our Quilting Through the Ages episode! In this episode, we focus on popular quilts throughout the ages, ranging from the Young family's quilts made in the late 1800s to the AIDS Memorial Quilt and quilts made by Rohingya women refugees.  Follow the pod at @AsianSewistCollective on Instagram. For show notes and a transcript of this episode, please see: https://asiansewistcollective.com/episode-55-quilting-through-the-ages-part-2/  If you find our podcast informative and enjoy listening, you can support us by buying our limited edition merch, joining our monthly membership or making a one-time donation via Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/asiansewistcollective 

In our 900th episode, we speak with people involved with Well Well Well over the years as well as the AIDS Memorial Quilt project. John "Jack" Hall, David Menadue, Alison Thorne and Phil Carswell join Cal for this episode airing the day before World AIDS Day 2023. In light of World AIDS Day, we also spoke with doctors with expertise in HIV/AIDS care and research, alongside community members who were part of Thorne Harbour Health's new HIV Still Matters campaign. You can watch their stories here. Check out our other JOY Podcasts for more on LGBTIQ+ health & wellbeing. If there's something you'd like us to explore on the show, send through ideas or questions at wellwellwell@joy.org.au Find out more about LGBTIQ+ services and events in Victoria at Thorne Harbour Health and in South Australia at SAMESH.

In this special bonus episode, Commissioner McDonald and Acting Executive Deputy Commissioner Morne talk about the Department of Health's AIDS Institute and their Ending the Epidemic Summit and World AIDS Day 2023 commemoration with Joe Kerwin, Director of the AIDS Institute and Stephanie McHugh from the Office of Planning and Community Affairs at the AIDS Institute.An annual feature of World AIDS Day and the ETE Summit are panels from the AIDS Memorial Quilt. For those unable to attend the commemoration in person, they may view panels of the quilt virtually through a keyword-searchable website: aidsmemorial.org/interactive-aids-quiltIf you have an idea for topics we should discuss, please let us know: PublicHealthNowPodcast@health.ny.gov

In this week's episode, Patrick and Tommie discuss the Israel-Hamas war, learn about canine vaccine hesitancy, meet the Magyar Agar, celebrate the greatest First Lady and the meanest man in Broadway history, review the history of Cleve Jones and the AIDS Memorial Quilt, relate their own stories on National Coming Out Day, discover something new about American Revolution war hero General Casimir Pulaski, review a case that challenges a state's conversion therapy ban, get frustrated over congressional dysfunction, and name their favorite depictions of queer people coming out.

Macca and Misha are joined live on air by Simon Ruth, THH and Dr Marina Larsson, Historian & Principal Assessor at Heritage Victoria as they discuss 2022 Thorne Harbour Health... LEARN MORE The post The 2022 Thorne Harbour Health Awards. Melbourne AIDS Memorial Quilt appeared first on Saturday Magazine.

October 11, 1987. During a national march on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, demonstrators unveil the AIDS Memorial Quilt, drawing national attention to the epidemic's growing death toll. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cleve Jones is an LGBT+ activist who initiated the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, an endeavor that brought attention to the AIDS epidemic in the 80s through 90s. This history is not taught in our schools so we are very honored to talk about it with the man who was a true pioneer in bringing us all together. We remember the Aids Memorial Quilt and the impact it still has on our community as we weather the AIDS crises.

Cleve Jones is an LGBT+ activist who initiated the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, an endeavor that brought attention to the AIDS epidemic in the 80s through 90s. This history is not taught in our schools so we are very honored to talk about it with the man who was a true pioneer in bringing us all together. We remember the Aids Memorial Quilt and the impact it still has on our community as we weather the AIDS crises.

The largest display of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in ten years took place in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park in June. Now the quilt is being taken on the road to the southern U.S., where new HIV infections and lower levels of treatment for those infected are the highest in the country. We also speak with the White House official overseeing the Biden Administration's response to the pandemic, after resources for HIV care were diverted to battling the COVID pandemic.

QCrew, I went to San Francisco's largest display of the AIDS Memorial Quilt for its 35th anniversary because of your support, Rebel Wilson and David Archuleta celebrate Pride Month by coming out on their socials, & Saucy Santana calls Blue "nappy headed” in 2014 and twitter ain't having it in 2022. Things for you to check out    Support the Queer News Podcast - Join the QCrew https://bit.ly/3L3Ng66    Sign the Petition - Secure Brittney Griner's Swift and Safe Return to the U​.​S. https://www.change.org/p/secure-brittney-griner-s-swift-and-safe-return-to-the-u-s   About Queer News An intersectional approach to daily news podcast where race & sexuality meet politics, entertainment and culture. Tune-in to reporting which centers & celebrates all of our lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer & comrade communities. Hosted by Anna DeShawn. 7 minutes a day, 5 days a week. We want to hear from you. Tune in and tell us what you think. email us at info@e3radio.fm. follow anna deshawn on ig & twitter: @annadeshawn. and if you're interested in advertising with “queer news,” write to us at info@e3radio.fm.

The iconic AIDS Memorial Quilt, a massive and moving reminder of those who lost their lives to AIDS, will be displayed once again in its hometown right here in San Francisco after spending two decades in storage in Atlanta.  The public will finally be able to view what will be the LARGEST display in San Francisco history, after a two-year COVID-19 delay, in Robin Williams Meadow for free starting this weekend.  For more, KCBE Radio news anchors Patti Reising and Jeff Bell spoke with Peter Hartlaub, Culture Critic for the San Francisco Chronicle 

The AIDS Memorial Quilt will return to Golden Gate Park on June 11-12, with the biggest display in San Francisco history. Cleve Jones joins Total SF hosts Peter Hartlaub and Heather Knight to talk about his first time visiting San Francisco, how the quilt started and why activism in LGBTQ communities is as important as ever. Produced by Peter Hartlaub. Music is "The Tide Will Rise" by the Sunset Shipwrecks off their album "Community" and cable car bell-ringing by 8-time champion Byron Cobb. Follow Total SF adventures at www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

KCBS Radio's Foodie Chap, Liam Mayclem, gets you set for a great Bay Area weekend with Pride events, San Francisco Giants baseball and AIDS Memorial Quilt.

The QCrew came through and I'm going to San Francisco to cover the 35th anniversary of the AIDS Memorial Quilt! WooHoo! Aunjanue Ellis comes out as bisexual and a school board bans the pride flag but the students and faculty get creative.     00:00 - Welcome & Intro 01:41 - Happy Pride 02:02 - Intro Music by Aina Bre'Yon 02:42 - I'm going to San Francisco  04:13 - Aunjanue Ellis comes out as bisexual 05:10 - A school board bans the pride flag but the students and faculty get creative 06:21 - Anna's Got A Word    Things for you to check out    Support the Queer News Podcast - Join the QCrew https://bit.ly/3L3Ng66    Sign the Petition - Secure Brittney Griner's Swift and Safe Return to the U​.​S. https://www.change.org/p/secure-brittney-griner-s-swift-and-safe-return-to-the-u-s   About Queer News An intersectional approach to daily news podcast where race & sexuality meet politics, entertainment and culture. Tune-in to reporting which centers & celebrates all of our lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer & comrade communities. Hosted by Anna DeShawn. 7 minutes a day, 5 days a week.   We want to hear from you. Tune in and tell us what you think. email us at info@e3radio.fm. follow anna deshawn on ig & twitter: @annadeshawn. and if you're interested in advertising with “queer news,” write to us at info@e3radio.fm.

The Wade's posted a beautiful family Easter pic & Zaya has a boo. The Air Force is allowing their LGBTQ families to relocate out of transphobic states causing them harm. 2022 is the 35th anniversary of the AIDS Memorial Quilt and San Francisco is honoring this moment with the largest quilt display in over a decade.    00:00 - Welcome & Intro 00:58 - E3 Radio Ad, Tune-in at https://e3radio.fm #QueerRadioDoneRight  01:21 - Intro Music by Aina Bre'Yon 02:01 - The Wade's posted a beautiful family Easter pic & Zaya has a boo 03:39 - The Air Force is allowing their LGBTQ families to relocate out of transphobic states causing them harm 05:17 - 2022 is the 35th anniversary of the AIDS Memorial Quilt and San Francisco is honoring this moment with the largest quilt display in over a decade 06:23 - Anna's Got A Word    Things for you to check out    Gabrielle Union Instagram  https://www.instagram.com/p/Ccdva-VP7w0/   Air Force is helping servicemembers get out of anti-trans states   https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/04/air-force-helping-servicemembers-get-anti-trans-states/   San Francisco to hold massive display of AIDS Memorial Quilt to honor its 35th anniversary https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/04/san-francisco-hold-massive-display-aids-memorial-quilt-honor-35th-anniversary/   About Queer News An intersectional approach to daily news podcast where race & sexuality meet politics, entertainment and culture. Tune-in to reporting which centers & celebrates all of our lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer & comrade communities. Hosted by Anna DeShawn. 7 minutes a day, 5 days a week.   We want to hear from you. Tune in and tell us what you think. email us at info@e3radio.fm. follow anna deshawn on ig & twitter: @annadeshawn. and if you're interested in advertising with “queer news,” write to us at info@e3radio.fm.

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We take a more somber tour of history than usual by examining the AIDS Memorial Quilt, and the HIV/AIDS epidemic that killed those represented within it. We discuss the tragedy of a negligent government, the power of a warm place to rest, and the enduring love and care we need for our communities.Website: https://www.mortalspodcast.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mortalspodcastInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/mortals_podcast/Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastMortals

On the show - Sue, Tony, Stephen and Josh chat about the Uk's AIDS Memorial Quilt in London. https://www.aidsquiltuk.org/about/ Terrence Higgins Trust new stigma campaign ' Life really changed". https://www.tht.org.uk/ HIV funding cuts in West Sussex and how The Worthing Hub are supporting service users in the area. A fantastic interview with Graham, the ChairBear of Brighton Bear weekend talking about the event starting on 22nd July 2021. https://brightonbearweekend.com/

On the show - Sue, Tony, Stephen and Josh chat about the Uk's AIDS Memorial Quilt in London. https://www.aidsquiltuk.org/about/ Terrence Higgins Trust new stigma campaign ' Life really changed". https://www.tht.org.uk/ HIV funding cuts in West Sussex and how The Worthing Hub are supporting service users in the area. A fantastic interview with Graham, the ChairBear of Brighton Bear weekend talking about the event starting on 22nd July. https://brightonbearweekend.com/

Part One- from the archives (2012) AIDS activist Cleve Jones, who came up with the idea for the AIDS Quilt. Part Two- John Cunningham, chief executive of the National AIDS Memorial. This month marks the 40th anniversary of the first reported AIDS cases in the United States.

In 1985, Gert McMullin was one of the first San Franciscans to put a stitch on the AIDS Quilt, the quilt that began with one memorial square in honor of a man who had died of AIDS, and that now holds some 95,000 names. Gert never planned it this way, but over the decades she has become the Keeper of the Quilt and has stewarded it, repaired it, tended it, traveled with it and conserved it for some 33 years. Gert knows the power of sewing. In 2020, when COVID-19 hit, Gert was one of the first Bay Area citizens to begin sewing masks—PPE for nurses and health care workers who were lacking proper protection—masks she made from fabric left over from the making of the AIDS Quilt. The comfort, outrage and honoring of an earlier pandemic being used to protect people from a new one. In January of 2020 The AIDS Memorial Quilt, now part of The National AIDS Memorial, returned home to the Bay Area after 16 years in Atlanta. It took six 52-foot semis to get it there. The over sixty tons of quilt, is made up of about 48,000 panels, each 3 x 6 feet, the size of a grave. The extensive AIDS Archive, which Gert gathered, collected and protected since its earliest days, is now part of The American Folklife Center at The Library of Congress in Washington, DC. This piece features stories of Gert McMullin and the AIDS Memorial Quilt, the Gay Rights Movement in San Francisco, Harvey Milk and The White Night Riots and more. With interviews with LGBT Rights activist Cleve Jones who worked with Harvey Milk and conceived of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, and John Cunningham, Executive Director of the National AIDS Memorial.

We discuss the AIDS epidemic and the creation of the largest piece of folk art in the world, the AIDS memorial quilt.

John joined the National AIDS Memorial as Chief Executive in 2009. John is a fifth generation Californian, having grown up in the East Bay before relocating to New England at the age of seven. A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, he received a degree in political science and organizational behavior. John presently resides in Oakland with his husband Joel and their two dogs.   “On June 5, 2021, we honor the more than 700,000 U.S. lives lost to AIDS during the past four decades. Join us online to watch a moving observance with leaders from the AIDS movement beginning @ 2:30 pm PT/5:30 pm ET. You can also sign-up to visit the Memorial Grove to experience a 40-Block outdoor display of the AIDS Memorial Quilt.” For more information: https://www.aidsmemorial.org/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

December 1st is World AIDS Day, a day to unite in the fight to end the HIV epidemic, support people living with HIV, and honor those who have lost their life.One of the most most famous AIDS-related icons is the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt. Conceived in 1985 by Cleave Jones and then co-founded as the NAMES Project with Mike Smith in 1987, the quilt has blossomed into a 48,000 panel memorial. Smith joins me to talk about the how the quilt began, the struggle to maintain a memorial made of spangles and cloth, and how the busiest quilt in American history went virtual. Like, subscribe, and listen!Ren Morrill (Host) - Ren is The Three Letter Podcast’s creator and host. He is a Maine native with a life long passion for HIV. He works for Frannie Peabody Center as the prevention program coordinator. He also serves as the co-chair of Pride Portland’s HIV Advisory Board.Mike Smith- Today is World AIDS day and my guest is Mike Smith. Mike is the co-founder of the AIDS Memorial Quilt and served as managing director there from 1987 to 1989. He returned in 1996 to produce the last full-scale display of the Quilt in Washington DC that year. Mike was executive director of the LGBT Community Center of Colorado from 1997 to 2001 and then, from 2002 to 2015, he led AIDS Emergency Fund & Breast Cancer Emergency Fund (AEF & BCEF), agencies that annually help more than 3,000 people disabled by HIV/AIDS or breast cancer pay their bills while too sick to work. He has recently rejoined the Quilt team as a consultant to the National AIDS Memorial, the new stewards of the Quilt.Mike’s undergraduate degree is from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. He received his MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.•NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt •Pride Portland’s HIV Advisory Board Virtual Hosting Of 8 Panels

AIDS Memorial Quilt & Food Relief Packs for PLHIV         Skye Bartlett personally saw to bringing light to the AIDS Memorial Quilt for South Australia once again. Join us as we talk about how the quilt originated at the beginning of the AIDS pandemic and the sentiment behind it. For more information about the quilt or if you wanted to make a contribution, get in touch with Skye via SAMESH (South Australia Mobilisation & Empowerment for Sexual Health). Daniel also joins us to chat about the food relief packs that were provided for people living with HIV, especially during a very trying time this year, as part of the community pantry. For some delicious and nutritious recipes, check out the SASHA website, or get in touch via SAMESH website or Facebook page.        

Today we have a discussion of COVID-19 Memorials with Chris Kocher, Joanna Hutchinson, Katherine Fugate, and Madeleine FugateChris Kocher is the founder and executive director of COVID Survivors for Change.  He is also the co-creator of a project, National COVID-19 Remembrance, an art installation and memorial to victims of COVID-19 that involved 20,000 empty seats on the Ellipse in Washington, D.C., and several statewide Remembrance events also featuring empty chairs.  He previously launched and led the Everytown Survivor Network, a part of Everytown for Gun Safety, which is the nation’s largest community of gun violence survivors working together to end gun violence. Based in West Philly, Joanna Hutchinson is a part-time sculptor, avid crafter, and enjoys a career in finance. Joanna is the artist behind 100,000 Folds: a community sculpture project honoring COVID victims in the United States and worldwide. She likes bringing people together: for friendship, community, and art making. 100,000 Folds is a way for the artist, and others, to mourn and reflect around the coronavirus crisis.MADELEINE FUGATE is 13 years old and an 8th grade student at The Buckley School in Sherman Oaks, California. When Madeleine was in the 7th grade, she was given a Community Action Project with the theme "Young Changemakers in a Covid-19 World." After hearing stories from her mother, who worked on the AIDS Memorial Quilt in the 1980s and told her healing it was at the time, Madeleine created the Covid Memorial Quilt to honor and remember all those who have died of COVID-19. Word has spread of the Covid Memorial Quilt and Madeleine has now received over 100 Memorial Squares from the US and from around the world.KATHERINE FUGATE is a screenwriter, best known for creating, writing and executive producing the TV series ARMY WIVES. She was honored to work with First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden on the "Joining Forces" campaign shining a light on the sacrifices of our military families. Katherine served 8 years on the Board of Directors of the Writers Guild of America, West. Katherine is the proud mother of Madeleine.

We often have those moments, the ones we literally denote as those where history stops for just one second to rewrite and reinvent itself. In America, you talk of 9/11, Pearl Harbor, Kennedy and MLK being shot, the night Obama was elected. This past Saturday may have been another, where the media call that Biden had won the electoral college sent seismic waves throughout the world. Those are instantaneous moments of history, where in a second, life is different. They are the rarest of times. Perhaps that is why we wanted to share this conversation the week after an election and period of time that is so dominated by instantaneous social media communication. On November 21, 2020, the Toledo Museum of Art will open Radical Tradition: American Quilts and Social Change, an exhibition that spans centuries and speaks to just how labor intensive oral history and physical storytelling can be. There is a beauty in the quilt, not only as an object of warmth and the process to create them, but as the museum notes "quilts have been used to voice opinions, raise awareness, and enact social reform in the U.S. from the mid-nineteenth century to the present." American history is so engrained in the history of quilts, from cotton production to the industrial revolution to civil rights, gender equality, queer rights, you tend to forget that these stories are not just part of an Outsider Art tradition but the very fabric of our lives. And how these two opposing words, "Radical" and "Tradition" are the hallmarks of how we grow and heal as a country in flux. From Gee's Bend quilts, the AIDS Memorial Quilt to the contemporary works of Bisa Butler, there is a lot to understand about the dynamics of quilts and their place in the pantheon of American art. In episode 057 of the Radio Juxtapoz podcast, we speak with Radical Tradition curator Lauren Applebaum of the Toledo Museum of Art on how the pandemic changed her daily life at the museum, the history of Outsider traditions in institutional arts, Toledo's unique history in art and the intricacies of curating an art show on radical traditions while the country itself was going through radical changes on streets across America. The Radio Juxtapoz podcast is hosted by FIFTH WALL TV's Doug Gillen and Juxtapoz editor, Evan Pricco. Episode 057 was recorded via Skype from Toledo, San Francisco, London, October 27, 2020. Radical Tradition is on view at the Toledo Museum of Art in Toledo, Ohio starting on November 21, 2020.

So your government is mishandling a pandemic resulting in the unnecessary deaths of hundreds of thousands of people? Listen to our newest episode, and let's follow the lead of our LGBTQ+ siblings and get quilting!  Support the National AIDS Memorial at https://www.aidsmemorial.org/donate

In 1985, Gert McMullin was one of the first San Franciscans to put a stitch on the AIDS Quilt, the quilt that began with one memorial square in honor of a man who had died of AIDS, and that now holds some 95,000 names. Gert never planned it this way, but over the decades she has become the Keeper of the Quilt and has stewarded it, repaired it, tended it, traveled with it and conserved it for some 33 years now. Gert knows the power of sewing. In 2020, when COVID-19 hit, Gert was one of the first Bay Area citizens to begin sewing masks—PPE for nurses and health care workers who were lacking proper protection—masks she makes from fabric left over from the making of the AIDS Quilt. The comfort, outrage and honoring of an earlier pandemic being used to protect people from a new one. In January of 2020 The AIDS Memorial Quilt, now part of The National AIDS Memorial, returned home to the Bay Area after 16 years in Atlanta. It took six 52-foot semis to get it there. The over sixty tons of quilt, is made up of about 48,000 panels, each 3 x 6 feet, the size of a grave. The extensive AIDS Archive, which Gert gathered, collected and protected since its earliest days, is now part of The American Folklife Center at The Library of Congress in Washington, DC. The story of Gert McMullin and the AIDS Memorial Quilt, the Gay Rights Movement in San Francisco, Harvey Milk, The White Night Riots. With interviews with LGBT Rights activist Cleve Jones who worked with Harvey Milk and conceived of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, and John Cunningham, Executive Director of the National AIDS Memorial.

SPEAKERS John Cunningham Executive Director, National AIDS Memorial Mike Smith Co-Founder, AIDS Memorial Quilt Gert McMullin Quilt Conservator & Production Manager, National AIDS Memorial Michelle Meow Producer and Host, "The Michelle Meow Show," KBCW TV and TuneIn; Member, Commonwealth Club Board of Governors—Host In response to the Coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak, this program took place and was recorded live via video conference, for an online audience only, and was live-streamed from The Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco on June 15th, 2020. This program contains some explicit language

Join us to learn the story behind the AIDS Memorial Quilt, as the Quilt's caretakers share their personal stories reflecting on 40 years of the pandemic. We'll discuss the Quilt's deep roots in San Francisco; meet the "Mother of the AIDS Quilt, who has been there since the beginning and is still there today to "take care of her boys"; learn about the Quilt's move to the care of the National AIDS memorial and how it is a powerful tool to teach—and reach—today's generation about HIV/AIDS; and hear personal stories behind the panels of the Quilt. While the United States and the world are reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic, learn about the parallels and differences between this pandemic and the AIDS pandemic, and how the Quilt provided healing and became a source of support to today's first-responders via mask-making. NOTES This program contains some explicit language This program is produced in partnership with AIDS2020 Made possible by the generous support of Gilead and Comcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Lisa talks about the Lesbian Vampire Killer Tracey Wigginton, Kirsten talks about the Aids Memorial Quilt, and Kay talks about Sappho.

How an LGBTQ+ activist decided to commemorate friends who had died of AIDS with a quilt, plus sequencing the 1918 flu virus, five years of war in Yemen, the story of a child abandoned in Hong Kong, and an attack on South Korea. (Photo: A section of the AIDS Memorial Quilt. Getty Images)

In 1985 activists hand-stitched a giant quilt to commemorate friends and relatives killed by AIDS, and to campaign for more funding and research into the disease. It was the brain child of Cleve Jones, who explains to Rebecca Kesby what it was like to live through the HIV/AIDS epidemic in San Francisco. How the LGBT community had to pull together, as victims of AIDS were ostracised by the wider community during their worst moment of suffering. (Photo: A section of the AIDS Memorial Quilt. Getty Images)

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For this week’s episode, we got to chat with David Villarreal of the Mosaic Project about his dedication and hard work on getting the AIDS Memorial Quilt brought down to Corpus Christi and events surrounding this memorial. Check it out!Herrman & Herrman PLLCFacebookInstagramTwitter

A piece of national history is being relocated from the Library of Congress to San Francisco where a new museum dedicated to the AIDS crisis and the lives it took will be commemorated by the AIDS Memorial Quilt.

Show #205 | Guest: Cleve Jones | Show Summary: A rebroadcast of our December 17, 2016 show | From longtime activist Cleve Jones comes a sweeping, beautifully written memoir about a full and remarkable American life. Jones brings to life the magnetic spell cast by 1970’s San Francisco, the drama and heartbreak of the AIDS crisis and the vibrant generation of gay men lost to it, and his activist work on labor, immigration, and gay rights, which continues today. Born in 1954, Cleve Jones was among the last generation of gay Americans who grew up wondering if there were others out there like himself. There were. As did thousands of young gay people, Jones moved to San Francisco in the early ’70s, nearly penniless, finding a city electrified by progressive politics and sexual liberation. Jones met lovers, developed intense friendships, and found his calling in “the movement.” Jones dove into politics and activism, taking an internship in the office of San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk, who became Jones’ mentor before his murder in 1978. With the advent of the AIDS crisis in the early ’80s, Jones emerged as one of the gay community’s most outspoken leaders. He co-founded the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and, later, the AIDS Memorial Quilt, one of the largest public art projects in history.

Cleve Jones talks about his life in the LGBTQ movement: working with Harvey Milk, starting the AIDS Memorial Quilt, and marching on Washington. He says marriage equality was never part of their mission, only stemming out the AIDS pandemic when they saw how important and life-saving it could be. Cleve also discusses the importance of building community amongst LGBTQ people, and says he is in now in love again and happier than he’s been in years. LGBTQ&A is hosted by Jeffrey Masters. @jeffmasters1 You can recommend a guest or let us know what you think about the show on Twitter or by emailing lgbtqashow@gmail.com More information: www.LGBTQpodcast.com

6 out of 10. Okay, needs work. www.latheatrebites.com Spanning from the 1988 display of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in Washington DC to the worldwide Women's Marches, Shades of Disclosure illuminates the triumphant lives of real people whose personal stories have been forgotten or silenced. Individuals, of varying stripes, relive their intimate and heartfelt histories while speaking to a sixteen-year old who, after bravely announcing her queerness, finds herself at a precarious turning point in American politics. In Shades of Disclosure, she discovers a band of mentors who tell it like it was, is, and how they hope it can be.

Show #150 | Guest: Born in 1954, Cleve Jones was among the last generation of gay Americans who grew up wondering if there were others out there like himself. There were. As did thousands of young gay people, Jones moved to San Francisco in the early ’70s, nearly penniless, finding a city electrified by progressive politics and sexual liberation. Jones met lovers, developed intense friendships, and found his calling in “the movement.” Jones dove into politics and activism, taking an internship in the office of San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk, who became Jones’ mentor before his murder in 1978. With the advent of the AIDS crisis in the early ’80s, Jones emerged as one of the gay community’s most outspoken leaders. He co-founded the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and, later, the AIDS Memorial Quilt, one of the largest public art projects in history. | Show Summary: From longtime activist Cleve Jones comes a sweeping, beautifully written memoir about a full and remarkable American life. Jones brings to life the magnetic spell cast by 1970’s San Francisco, the drama and heartbreak of the AIDS crisis and the vibrant generation of gay men lost to it, and his activist work on labor, immigration, and gay rights, which continues today.

Contemporary Design History; History of the AIDS Crisis As Susan Sontag pointed out, the American AIDs epidemic is characterised by powerful, apocalyptic metaphors. And, whether one is talking in terms of the syndrome itself; in relation to government inaction, or of the militant activism that sprung up across America’s gay urban centres, these are invariably metaphors of warfare. Further, in discussing how we remember and memorialise AIDS, many scholars have drawn comparisons with the way we remember and mourn war, arguing that the AIDS Memorial Quilt owes much of its conceptual framework to the Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial. Meanwhile, the Quilt’s custodians, the NAMES Project, view themselves as closely aligned with efforts to memorialise the Holocaust, citing Yad Vashem as an exemplar memorial. Similarly, Gert McMullin, long-time Handmaiden of the Quilt, calls the panels her soldiers: ‘these are the old soldiers,’ she said, gesturing at the warehouse that houses the Quilt, ‘and we keep getting new troops in.’ Thus, we can see AIDS as part of an ideological war, affecting conceptions of masculinity, the body, and linguistics, whilst also prompting new modes of relating to, remembering, and memorialising trauma. With the AIDS Memorial Quilt in the contemporary period as a case study, I take a design-historical and theoretical approach to assess how we use unique material processes to remember and memorialise during prolonged periods of trauma. I argue for the Quilt as a postmodern text that, rather than embodying a single cohesive collective memory, provides a collection of memories; a diverse assemblage of ways to remember the crisis, and those lost to it.

To speak to Gert McMullen about the origins of the AIDS Memorial Quilt is to go back to a scary, sad time in LGBTQ history: San Francisco in the early 1980s. "People were terrified," she explains, "because they didn't know what was happening. People were just dying. They were trying to figure out, why were these gay men dying?" Gert lost many of her friends in the early days of the AIDS epidemic, and thanks to the fear and stigma surrounding the disease, she was often their only visitor. "You would go into the hospitals and there was nobody there and the nurses would put you in a moon suit, basically, to walk in there, because they didn't know what was going to happen," she recalls. No one understood how the disease was transmitted, so many people were afraid to come into close contact with their afflicted loved ones - even during their final days. "I remember a friend of mine who was so lonely and I just kind of touched him, and he just went, 'Oh my god, it's been so long since somebody even touched me.'" Witnessing all this sparked Gert's involvement in LGBTQ activism - involvement which continues today. She began work on the AIDS Memorial Quilt in the 80s and is now its caretaker, taking it on tours so people can see it in person. Twenty panels of the quilt will be on display as part of the 20th Anniversary Louisville AIDS Walk on October 13th. We'll talk more about the walk as it gets closer, but this week we speak to Gert about the quilt itself, and the evolution of AIDS-related activism. In our Juicy Fruit segment, we talk about the Charlotte, NC police shooting of Jonathan Ferrell, who was unarmed and running to them for help after a car accident. We also take a look at the racism that erupted online when Nina Davuluri was crowned Miss America. And we celebrated Queen Latifah's new talk show but wondered why so many folks involved in its debut are widely-rumored to be gay.

For todays show Gene examines the physical and cultural impact of the Center for Disease Control - better known as the CDC - the only government agency headquartered outside of Washington DC. The relationship between the CDC and Atlanta traces all the way back to the malaria epidemic of the early 20th century, but it has grown more over time. In the Atlanta community, the CDCs impact cannot be understated. It is measured by prestige, progress and even in terms of economic development, bringing new business to the city and to the region. Today, the CDC is also fostering an environment of collaboration: through design, through education, and even by way of Zombies…yes, Zombies. Our three guests are: (1) Dan Watch, an architect for Perkins+Will who helped lead the design of CDCs newest Atlanta campus (2) JULIE RHOAD, President and CEO of the NAMES Project Foundtion which oversees the AIDS Memorial Quilt and (3) DAVID DAIGLE. agency spokesperson for the CDC and creator of the Zombie Apocalypse campaign.