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Advocate, The, Feb 28, 2006 by Don Romesburg
In this issue The Advocate profiles the Names Project as it struggles with funding and internal conflicts. But when the magazine first reported on the project nearly two decades ago, the fledgling organization had growing support and a clear mission: to gather and organize thousands of panels memorializing those lost to AIDS, in order to create a giant quilt for display on the Mall during the 1987 March on Washington.
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Names Project founder Cleve Jones explained how the idea for the quilt had come to him: At a 1985 vigil honoring slain hero Harvey Milk, participants had brought signs for loved ones who had passed and, at the end of the march, filled the wall of the Federal Building with those names. "It was such a startling visual," Jones explained. "As I was looking at it I decided: This should be a quilt."
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