#Duane Kearns Puryear

[queersatanic]

Happy birthday, Duane.

#Duane Kearns Puryear #HIV/AIDS #queer history #AIDS Memorial Quilt #Duane died in 1991 #He’d be 59 this year

[100gayicons]

After contracting HIV, Duane Puryear became an advocate for AIDS awareness and gay rights. Anticipating his end, he created his own panel for the Names Project AIDS Quilt. A simple black and white design - his message is haunting…

"My name is Duane Kearns Puryear. I was born on December 20, 1964. I was diagnosed with AIDS on September 7, 1987 at 4:45 pm. I was 22 years old. Sometimes it makes me very sad. I made this panel myself. If you are reading it, I am dead."

For his whole story, check out this link:

Thanks to Richard Stabbert for alerting me to Duane’s story.

@rstabbert

#gay icons #Duane Kearns Puryear #aids awareness #powerful #moving #haunting #names project #aids quilt

[maeamian]

Yesterday, December 20th, would have been Duane Kearns Puryear's 58th birthday, but on September 7th, 1987, at 4:45 PM, he was diagnosed with AIDS. He was 22 years old at the time and would not live to see 30 as the inevitabilities of being a gay man with AIDS at the time happened. I think about him from time to time, his panel in the AIDS quilt, the sadness and straightforwardness with which it tells you everything and nothing about him.

If you've got a half hour or so, this talk discusses his life and his legacy through the context of his panel and I found it deeply moving, if you've only got five minutes, this article by its presenter covers most of the facts in the talk, but misses out on several meaningful details by the necessity of being shorter.

#IDK it's important to me that people know #in part because it was clearly important to him

[stelliferous2]

i think about duane often and felt the inexplicable urge to share this

http://www.thedallasway.org/stories/written/2021/9/19/duane-puryears-and-the-quilt-panel

[image description: a young man sits on a grassy field, holding a panel of the AIDS quilt. The panel is in black and white, with writing in capital letters. It reads: My name is Duane Kearns Puryear. I was born December 20th, 1964. I was diagnosed with AIDS on September 7, 1987 at 4:45pm. I was 22 years old. Sometimes it makes me very sad. I made this panel myself. If you are reading it, I am dead.]

#cw aids #queer #lgbtq #queer history

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Duane Kearns Puryear holding his own AIDS panel at ‘Display on Ellipse’ in Washington, D.C., 1989

In creating this (panel) with needle and thread, Puryear completed the most significant reidentification possible. He identified himself as dead

#never forget #resist #lgbt #aids #lgbtq #photography #aids quilt #duane kearns puryear #80s

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Duane Kearns Puryear holding his own AIDS panel at ‘Display on Ellipse’ in Washington, D.C., 1989

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c86: Duane Kearns Puryear holding his own AIDS panel at... https://ift.tt/2oZEWg2

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