It’s been just over a year since the National AIDS Memorial Grove announced plans for an AIDS museum, and since then the project is still in a visionary stage, according to grove Executive Director John Cunningham.
Meanwhile, the GLBT Historical Society is moving ahead with its plan for a museum of its own and has received a $50,000 grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission to conduct a feasibility study.
The status of both projects comes on the eve of the 37th anniversary of the first reported cases of AIDS when an article appeared on June 5, 1981, in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, a publication of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.