AIDS Quilt at First & Franklin
Schedule
Sat Jun 10 2023 at 12:00 pm to 02:00 pm
Location
210 W Madison St | Baltimore, MD
Two sections of the AIDS Memorial Quilt will be on display in Reid Chapel beginning May 21.About this Event
Two sections of the AIDS Memorial Quilt are on display at First & Franklin Presbyterian Church.
The display commemorates the lives of those lost to the scourge of AIDS in this, the 40th anniversary of the first public meetings about the crisis.
On April 27th, 1983, the first AIDS Support Group in Baltimore outside of a clinical environment was held at First & Franklin.
On June 8, 1983, the first public AIDS crisis forum was held at First & Franklin to an audience of more than 300 people.
In the following decades First & Franklin was a leader in the social justice movement for equality of LGBTQ+ people.
As one of the first “More Light” churches in the country, First & Franklin began passing of the peace so that AIDS patients who attended worship would be touched physically by someone.
The church also founded the AIDS Interfaith Network to support AIDS patients in need.
First & Franklin began performing same sex union “Blessing Services” in 1982 and filed an Amicus Brief in the support of marriage equality before the State Legislature in 2009.
The quilts and First & Franklin are a feature of one of Baltimore Heritage’s “Five Minute History” videos.
Where is it happening?
210 W Madison St, 210 West Madison Street, Baltimore, United StatesUSD 0.00
