Their are many ways to mark this day when we remember all the remarkable people who we have loved and lost to this disease.  Friends and lovers who enriched our lives only to have their own so unfairly taken away from them.  Events will be held around the globe today to help us focus not just on our loved ones that are no longer physically with us, but also others that are still coping with living with HIV and AIDS.

In 1996 President Clinton signed Nancy Pelossi’s National AIDS Memorial Grove Act which designated the Grove in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park as the nation’s AIDS Memorial thus cementing what had started as project of passion by enthusiastic volunteers 5 years earlier into a reality. Its mission is simple, and is to provide, in perpetuity, a place of remembrance so that the lives of people who died from AIDS are not forgotten, and the story is known by future generations. The Grove now has an endowment which preserves for all time a living memorial for remembrance and reflection, for inspiration, action and most of all hope which is the theme of the video below, directed and produced by award winning filmmaker Marc Smolowitz.

Most memorials are built after the struggle is over. This battle rages on and we cannot wait, lest any one of our loved ones lost to AIDS be forgotten.  The National Aids Memorial is funded by donations, and queerguru can think of no better way to mark today, then to make a contribution to help maintain this wonderful project http://www.aidsmemorial.org/support