Launched in 1985 by Cleve Jones, “The Names Project” started as a few quilt panels bearing the names of 40 men who died of AIDS in Jones’s San Francisco community. As the project grew ...

Though the first display of the AIDS Quilt did not take place until October 11, 1987, during the Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, its origin was a 1985 candlelight vigil ...