"Names Project/AIDS Memorial Quilt" button

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Titles "Names Project/AIDS Memorial Quilt" button
Description This white rectangular button was purchased at the Twin Cities GLBT (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender) Pride Celebration, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1995. The button reads 'NAMES PROJECT AIDS MEMORIAL QUILT' and features a sixteen block quilt depicting a variety of symbols. The symbols include: an open hand with needle and thread (symbol for craft), a biosphere (representing all nationalities), a heart, the Capitol dome, a spool of thread, a rainbow (symbol for unity), an eye with a tear (symbol for grief), biological symbols for female and male, an inverted pink triangle (symbol for the GLBT civil rights movement), and the mathematical symbol for infinity.
Quantity 1 item
Format Content Category: artifacts
Measurements 7.8 centimeters length
5.3 centimeters width
Nomenclature button (information artifact)
Materials paper
metal
plastic
miscellaneous media
Subjects Names Project
Gay-Lesbian-Bisexual-Transgender
Twin Cities Gay-Lesbian-Bisexual-Transgender Pride Celebration, 1995
Politics and government
Used in: Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States
United States
Badges, Buttons & Medals. Government. Political Movements & Causes
Dates Creation: 1995
Holding Type 3D Objects
Identifiers 1995.179.2 (Accession Number)

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