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Erwin Rappaport opens AIDS Monument in West Hollywood, highlights community response and history
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Erwin Rappaport, chair of the Foundation for the AIDS Monument, opened the new AIDS Monument in West Hollywood, describing its 147 bronze 'traces,' an online word wall linking visitor stories, and the role of community organizing and medical advances in changing the course of the epidemic.
Erwin Rappaport, chair of the Foundation for the AIDS Monument, opened the AIDS Monument in West Hollywood and described the memorial's design, its educational features and the history it commemorates.
Rappaport said the monument — developed over 15 years in partnership with the city of West Hollywood, which provided land and substantial funding — includes 147 bronze pillars called “traces,” 30 of which are engraved with words that link to a word wall on the foundation's website, aidsmonument.org. "It's so exciting to finally open this monument after 15 years of developing it," Rappaport said.
The monument is designed to communicate the early years of the…
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