Posted on 09/02/2022 6:38:50 AM PDT by fwdude
Sections of the AIDS Memorial Quilt are about to tour the Southern United States as part of in an initiative to honor Black and brown lives lost to HIV and to raise awareness of racial disparities that continue to fuel the epidemic.
The Change the Pattern initiative will launch in Jackson, Mississippi, September 28 to October 4, with Quilt displays, educational forums, storytelling, advocacy, panel-making and other free programs. According to a press statement from the National AIDS Memorial in San Francisco, the custodian of the Quilt, the Change the Pattern display and events will then move to other Southern locations.
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We love our quilts in the South, but like everyone else, we are almost as weary of hearing about HIV/AIDS as we are of Covid. Ho hum.
Oh, but you will be MADE to care.
Gonna add a few squares for monkey pox?
that’s still a thing? I thought they’d moved on from AIDS and onto the next queer disease monkeyferpox.
Undoubtedly.
You can’t make people care. Any more than you can make people love. Besides, we Southerners are a stubborn lot.
Using harsh enough tactics, you can make most people pretend to care, though. I will readily concede that. We Southerners tend to be a bit more rebellious (smile) when it comes to such tactics, however.
HIV is totally color blind
Fags,junkies and hookers.
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