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Oct. 17th, 2011 08:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
coyotegothTwo young men hope to honor New York's early victims of AIDS, as well as the hospital and staff that treated them, by turning an underutilized triangle of land into a verdant public space and memorial.
Chris Tepper, 29, and Paul Kelterborn, 33, are spearheading the effort. Calling themselves the Queer History Alliance, the men hope to honor the work of St. Vincent's hospital, the Greenwich Village institution that recently went bankrupt and shut its doors. St. Vincent's treated some of the earliest AIDS victims and took in nearly 100,000 AIDS sufferers from 1981 to 1996 — a period when the disease was often fatal.
Chris Tepper, 29, and Paul Kelterborn, 33, are spearheading the effort. Calling themselves the Queer History Alliance, the men hope to honor the work of St. Vincent's hospital, the Greenwich Village institution that recently went bankrupt and shut its doors. St. Vincent's treated some of the earliest AIDS victims and took in nearly 100,000 AIDS sufferers from 1981 to 1996 — a period when the disease was often fatal.
