AIDS Memorial Quilt

Experience the National AIDS Memorial Quilt and the Gilbert Baker Foundation’s Flag in the Map exhibit. Witness a part of American history that is being actively erased by this administration.

On display at Hunt Union Ballroom at SUNY Oneonta, March 21-23, 2025.

Friday, March 21-Sunday March 23: Open viewing, open to the public and school fieldtrips

Saturday, March 22nd: 5:00pm Names Ceremony with Speakers.*Exhibit Highlights*- Reading of the Names
- Speakers
- Letters from the Quilt
- HIV resources/education
- Live musical performances
- Community Remembrance Table
- AIDS Memorial Quilt Books and memorabilia collection
- Community outreach

The AIDS Memorial Quilt honors more than 110,000 individuals, across nearly 50,000 panels. Each panel is 3 feet by 6 feet, the size of a grave. Come experience part of the largest community arts project in history and continue to honor the 700,000 US lives lost to the AIDS pandemic as we display 96 panels on 12 blocks of the quilt.*Honoring Our Loved Ones*
The National AIDS Quilt is a community effort, and we would like to include you.If you’d like your loved one’s name to be read during our names ceremony at the reception, please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/6v8igPkTGo8rX3cf7

Please bring a photograph of someone you have lost to HIV/AIDS, to be shared on our table of remembrance. (Or if you’d like us to print a photo, please submit it using the form above.)

*Flag in the Map Exhibition*The event will also include a special exhibit of the Gilbert Baker Foundation and’s Flag in the Map project. Flag in the Map, a collaboration between the Gilbert Baker Foundation and ReportOUT, is growing collection of photographs and stories that reaffirms the universal power of the Rainbow Flag to inspire LGBTQ+ people – especially in countries where their everyday existence is threatened. A growing collection of photographs and stories that reaffirms the universal power of the Rainbow Flag to inspire LGBTQ+ people – especially in countries where their everyday existence is threatened.To learn more please visit: https://gilbertbaker.com/flaginthemap/

Host or Publisher Otsego Pride Alliance