The National AIDS Memorial

In the late 1980s a group of San Franciscans, devastated by the personal and collective toll of AIDS, appealed to the City to found the AIDS Memorial Grove in Golden Gate Park as a living tribute to those touched by AIDS. In 1996, this place of remembering and healing was designated as a national memorial. A swamp turned into sacred ground, it stands today as a unique example of civic restoration, environmental protection, and community response to grief and loss. FORGET ME NOT (working title) tells the personal stories embedded and unearthed in the Grove, and shares its inspiring, award-winning model for turning grief into growth and loss into life.

(in production, 60 min.)

• Click here to watch video from "Tales of the Grove" with Armistead Maupin

This disease will be the end of many of us, but not nearly all. And the dead will be commemorated and will struggle on with the living....We won't die secret deaths any more.

Pryor, from "Angels in America" by Tony Kushner