34th Annual World AIDS Day Vigil And March

“Everyone we lost,” Nigel Griffith said, “..it is because of them we’re still here keeping up this fight.”

He was kicking off the 34th Annual World AIDS Day Vigil at the Boston Center for the Arts as well as the March To End HIV Stigma from Boston City Hall to the BCA in a drizzle yesterday afternoon. Marchers carried sections of the landmark Names AIDS Memorial Quilt. The event was organized by the Boston nonprofit Spoke, led by founder and artistic director Michael Dowling. The march is being followed by a 34-hour vigil, through 11:59 tonight, Monday, Dec. 1, marked by artistic and prayerful offerings each hour.

“If we can get back from Covid,” Griffith said, “we can find a way to eradicate HIV/AIDS.”

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