100 San Francisco AIDS Foundation volunteers used 15,000 square feet of plastic tarp and 400 stakes to create a huge-assed red AIDS ribbon in remembrance of the thirty year epidemic. One can see the ribbon on the Twin Peaks clear from the East Bay. It will remain up for a month.
“Like an aging movie star, it’s going to look better from a distance,” said Patrick Carney, who was diagnosed with the AIDS virus in 1987 and who today, at 55 years old, relies on dozens of pills and two injections a day to keep his compromised immune system strong.