AIDS Spotlighted Around the World
World AIDS Day observances Sunday ranged from “A Day Without Art” to a “Night Without Light.” Methods for marking the occasion were as far-flung as the places where it was commemorated.
In Russia, where homosexuality is a crime, members of the Russian Union of Gays and Lesbians passed out condoms and safe-sex literature outside Moscow City Hall.
At Tel Aviv University, condoms were handed out and a quilt bearing names of Israeli AIDS victims was displayed.
The French put candles in their windows. About 1,000 members of ACT UP marched in Paris, where a Christmas tree was hung with 800 ornaments signifying 800 children afflicted with AIDS.
In the United States, art galleries and museums were focal points.
New York’s Museum of Modern Art put up 13 framed, blank papers and canvases to “represent all the works that will never get shown” because of AIDS, said Robert Storr of the museum Projects Committee.
At dusk Sunday, skylines in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Miami and Austin, Tex., were to dim for 15 minutes in the “Night Without Light” project.
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