AIDS Memorial Quilt was sewn to show ‘people were dying.’

The AIDS quilt in front of the Washington Monument(Image: Wiki Commons)

Today the AIDS Memorial Quilt, which recently returned to San Francisco after 20 years in Atlanta, contains 48,000 panels, 100,000 names, and measures to 1.3 million feet. It weighs 54 tons. But 35 years ago, it was an idea in Cleve Jones’ mind…