It is more than 50 tons of fabric and compassion, and the Library of Congress describes it as the largest communal art project in the world.
The AIDS Memorial Quilt was stitched from the lives of those dying from an epidemic that many in the government and public feared and failed to address. There was stigma and misunderstanding in the earliest days around the most prominent groups affected: men who had sex with men, Haitians and people with hemophilia, a rare blood disorder.
