50 min

The AIDS memorial quilt - a patchwork of loss The History Hour

    • Personal Journals

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)

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)

50 min

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