Volunteers walk on the 21,000 panel Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt in Washington in 1992. (Ap Photo/Shayna Brenna)AP The 16-year-old boy had the kind of illness that wouldn’t be familiar to doctors for years: He was weak and emaciated, rife with stubborn infections and riddled with rare cancerous lesions known as Kaposi’s sarcoma, a skin disease found in elderly men of Mediterranean descent. The boy, Robert Rayford, died on May 15, 1969, in St. Louis. It would be more than a decade before doctors started seeing similar cases among gay men in New York and California. In 1982, with the num...
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Lorena De Leon, 18, a first-year student at Connecticut College, examines each panel of the AIDS Memorial Quilt on display in the Tansill Theater on the Conn College Campus on Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2018. Three large sections of the quilt are on display
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