AIDS Memorial Quilt Creator Cleve Jones Honored With Lifetime Achievement Award

CBS Sacramento

December 1, 2022

At a World AIDS Day event Wednesday evening, iconic HIV activist Cleve Jones was honored with the National AIDS Memorial Lifetime of Commitment Award.

It was recognition of Jones' work as the creator of the AIDS Memorial Quilt which helped change the course of the deadly disease.

Sitting in the garden of his Guerneville home, Cleve Jones said his greatest achievement is probably just being alive. At age 17, he was a scared, lonely kid, planning his own suicide.

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