BALTIMORE, Md., Sept. 29 -- The University of Maryland at Baltimore issued the following news release:
Amidst the peak of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, Eric L. Anderson visited Washington, D.C., to view the AIDS Memorial Quilt as it stretched over 30 acres on the National Mall.
AIDS Memorial Quilt co-founder Cindy "Gert" McMullin, left, watches a screening of "Gert's Boys" at the SMC Campus Center. Photo by Matthew Paul D'Agostino
At this point in 1996, Anderson lived for five years with a HIV positive diagnosis. The 40,000 panels that laid in front of him represented lives lost to HIV/AIDS.
"I was looking at it, and wondering, who's going to make a quilt for me?" an emotional Anderson recalled during the University of Maryland School of Socia...