Originator of AIDS Quilt Given Award by Harvard
<i> Associated Press</i>
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Cleve Jones has been given the Harvard AIDS Institute’s annual leadership award for his work on the AIDS quilt. Jones, 38, who was honored Tuesday, started the quilt in 1986 when he sewed a panel in memory of a companion who died of AIDS. He then encouraged others to make similar tributes. There are now 2,500 individual quilt panels.
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