Now until July, the Spurlock Museum in Urbana is exhibiting of local AIDS quilt panels made during the midst of the AIDS pandemic. University of Illinois journalism students teamed up with Illinois Public Media to create short videos about the panels and the men they memorialize.

Greg Downey from Monticello, Illinois died of AIDS at home surrounded by his mother's love. She talks about Greg, his sexuality and AIDS diagnosis and her promise to him before he died in 1990.

Donald "Devin" Carrington was a cosmetologist and bartender from central Illinois who died of AIDS in 1990.  In this video, Devin's mother remembers her son.

Stephen Gallagher was an out gay man and adminstrative assistant for the Gay Community AIDS Project in Champaign, Illinois.  He died of AIDS in 1991.  Close friends of Stephen remember him.