As the country prepares to mark the 40th anniversary of the first cases of what is now known as AIDS, the National AIDS Memorial Grove in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park will open to the public for what organizers said would be a moving tribute.
There will be a 40-block display of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, which the grove took stewardship of in 2019, and people can experience the 10-acre living memorial that honors lives lost, survivors, and heroes, a news release stated.
It was June 5, 1981 that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report noted five cases of pneumocystis pneumonia among previously healthy gay men in Los Angeles.