RT Journal Article
T1 AIDS memorials from obituaries to artworks – a photo essay
A1 Jörn Wolters
YR 2021
VO Special issue: Curating medicine
IS Autumn 2020
K1 Activism
K1 AIDS memorial
K1 Conservation
K1 Cultural heritage
K1 healing
K1 History of Medicine
K1 Monument
K1 Mourning
K1 Necrology
K1 Online repository
K1 Oral history
K1 Remembrance
AB 
NO In 1970, the lower-case Greek letter lambda was chosen as the symbol of the  New York chapter of the Gay Activists Alliance for its meaning in physics for ‘wavelength’. In 1974 it was officially declared the international symbol for gay and lesbian rights by the International Gay Rights Congress in Edinburgh. The rainbow flag – originally containing two extra colours, pink and turquoise – was designed for the Gay Freedom Day Parade 1978 in San Francisco in order to replace the pink triangle associated with Nazi oppression.
NO The Tainted Blood Tragedy describes the infection of haemophiliacs and other transfusion recipients with HIV and the hepatitis C virus (HCV) through blood products. The term ‘Tainted Blood Scandal’ is used for the period where effective virus deactivation methods were available but not applied. Both viruses lead to a significant higher mortality among haemophiliacs.
NO Flagging is a way of dancing by moving flags in a rhythmic fashion, developed from fan dancing in the late 1970s in the leather scene of San Francisco. As AIDS took its toll on the community, only a few masters of these arts remained. A rebirth took place in the mid-1990s in New York and the East Coast from where it spread to the rest of the country, to Belo Horizonte and further into Brazil.
PB The Science Museum Group
SN 2054-5770
LA eng
DO 10.15180/201403
UL https://journal.sciencemuseum.ac.uk/article/aids-memorials/
WT Science Museum Group Journal
OL 30