Effects on the AIDS movement White Night riots

the names project aids quilt, representing people have died of aids, in front of washington monument

cleve jones played major role in investigation of riots, , had since become prominent activist. dropped out of school work legislative consultant california state assembly speakers leo mccarthy , willie brown. spent time organizing political campaigns. in 1981, while working consultant california state assembly health committee, became aware of gay men in san francisco contracting unusual diseases, such kaposi s sarcoma. gay community affected aids epidemic, , jones became key aids activist. jones co-founded kaposi s sarcoma research & education foundation, in 1982 became san francisco aids foundation. on november 27, 1985, @ candlelight vigil on anniversary of moscone-milk assassinations, jones learned 1,000 people had died of aids. proposed creation of quilt, in remembrance of had died. in 1987, jones, hiv-positive himself, launched names project aids memorial quilt. of 2009, quilt consists of on 44,000 individual panels. in 2004 interview, jones said thought, perfect symbol; warm, comforting, middle-class, middle-american, traditional-family-values symbol attach disease s killing homosexuals , iv drug users , haitian immigrants, , maybe, maybe, apply traditional family values family.