The State - News from May 9, 1988
Anti-AIDS demonstrators in Sacramento drew hundreds of chalk figures on the front steps of the state Capitol, labeling them with slogans or the names of dead AIDS victims and adorning them with yellow daisies. “There were a lot of tears here today,” said Ivy Bottini of Los Angeles, statewide coordinator of a Mother’s Day weekend of AIDS and homosexual rights protests at the Capitol dubbed the “March on Sacramento.” The names of 5,000 California victims of acquired immune deficiency syndrome were read aloud, including names of newly deceased victims added by the hundreds of demonstrators. Actor Rock Hudson’s name was among those printed inside the yellow-chalk figures, which included some outlines of small children and babies.
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