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NAMES QUILT TO BE DISPLAYED LABOR DAY WEEKEND IN LEXINGTON

A major portion of the "Names Quilt" will be displayed in Lexington
during the Labor Day weekend. The quilt is made up of thousands of
three by six foot panels, memorializing those who have died from AIDS in
the United states over the past ten years. More than 500 of these
panels will be displayed in Heritage Hall at the Lexington Civic Center
on Saturday, August 31 and Sunday, September 1.

Each panel honors one of those who died of AIDS and challenges the
living to work to achieve a cure
for the disease.

In the past on 12 to 45 panels MOST KENTUCKY CITIZENS SAY
have been in the state at one SEXUALITYISAPRIVATE MATTER
time. This is the largest display
of the guilt in Kentucky, said Most Kentuckians say that the
Kevin E kins spokesperson for government should not regulate
NAMES Project Kentuckcy. either heterosexual or homosexual

"This is a statewi e outreach to activity between consenting
educate people about AIDS. We adults. This was the finding of a
hope this major display will statewide poll conducted by the
attract many people," Elkins said. University of Kentucky Survey

Several organizations will have Research Center in April and May.
booths to educate people about A majority of 62.2 percent said
AIDS. Volunteers are needed to the state should not regulate
help set up and take down the private sexual activity between
display, and to serve as guides. consenting adults of the same sex.
Persons interested in volunteering A larger ma'ority of more than 75
can call Katie McCormick, 233-3855 percent said the state should not
or Dan Ezell, 254-9998. regulate private sexual activity

between consenting adults of the
opposite sex.

AIDS CASES UP 23 PERCENT The statewide telephone survey

of 646 randomly selected people is

AIDS is still an epidemic 10 a fairly accurate measure of the
years after the first cases were views of what people in Kentucky
diagnosed, but the demographics of are thinking, said Mark Berger,
those with the disease is acting director of the research
changing. The U.S. AIDS case center. The poll has an average
count stands at more than 179,000, margin of error plus or minus 3.8
with more than 113,000 dead, the percent.
national Center for Disease The Kentucky Supreme Court is
Control has reported. presently conSidering an appeal of

The number of AIDS cases a 1985 case in which a Fayette
reported in 1990 was up 23 percent District Court judge found the
over 1980. Cases transmitted state's sodomy law to be
among heterosexuals increased by unconstitutional. A ruling is
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