NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt and activism in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles (1988, silent)

Silent footage documenting the historic NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt and gay rights activism in Washington, D.C. and at UCLA in Westwood Village, Los Angeles in 1988. The AIDS Memorial Quilt is a handmade monument dedicated to the lives lost to the AIDS epidemic, created by the victims’ friends, lovers and relatives.

Footage from the Norman Yonemoto Collection, preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive as part of the Outfest UCLA Legacy Project for LGBTQ Moving Image Preservation: ucla.in/2Gut670