AIDS Memorial Quilt Panel
date: label: Date made
content: 1985-1990
name: label: referenced
content: Lyon, Roger
label: maker
content: McMullin, Gert
notes: label: Description
content: This panel from the AIDS Memorial Quilt honors activist Roger Lyon, who died of AIDS in 1984. Shortly before his death, Lyon testified before Congress to appeal for funding to combat the growing epidemic.
label: Description
content: One of the greatest challenges in the fight against AIDS was changing public attitudes toward the disease and its victims, who were predominantly homosexual men. To awaken a seemingly uncaring nation to the magnitude of the crisis, activists created the AIDS Memorial Quilt. Through its thousands of panels, each with a personal story, the quilt has served as a call for compassion, education, and action.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: California, San Francisco
topic: label: Subject
content: LGBTQ Rights
label: Subject
content: LGBTQ
label: Subject
content: Gay Rights
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Family & Social Life
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content: Cultures & Communities
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content: National Treasures exhibit
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Kendrick, Kathleen M. and Peter C. Liebhold. Smithsonian Treasures of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: In Memory of Roger Lyon
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1998.0254.01
label: accession number
content: 1998.0254
label: catalog number
content: 1998.0254.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: aids panel
label: Object Name
content: quilt panel, aids
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (part material)
label: Physical Description
content: synthetic cloth (part material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (part material)
label: Physical Description
content: news print (part material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 90.6 cm x 180 cm x .5 cm; 35 11/16 in x 70 7/8 in x 3/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall, as folded and stored: 3 1/4 in x 23 in x 29 in; 8.255 cm x 58.42 cm x 73.66 cm