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Exhibition honouring man whose life and death shaped HIV epidemic
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Western Telegraph | News
A memorial quilt commemorating Terry Higgins, the first named person in the UK to die of an AIDS-related illness, is being displayed in Wales for the first time at St Fagans National Museum of History.
The quilt, created to mark the 40th anniversary of his death, is on loan from the charity and will be on public view in St Fagans' Wales is... gallery.
Mark Etheridge, principal curator of collection development: LGBTQ+ at Amgueddfa Cymru, said: "It’s a privilege to display the Terry Higgins AIDS Memorial Quilt at St Fagans National Museum of History – the first time for the quilt to be displayed in Wales.
Richard Angell OBE, chief executive of Terrence Higgins Trust, said: "Terry was a proud Welshman and lived over half his life in Wales.
Alongside the quilt is a portrait of Mr Higgins by artist Nathan Wyburn, created using ink stamps in the shape of the Terrence Higgins Trust’s heart-shaped logo.