Sticker: "Thank You Diana / Your compassion and care for those with AIDS and breast cancer will not be forgotten"
- San Francisco: n.pl., [1997]
Sticker produced by a private individual in San Francisco in response to the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, on August 31, 1997. Photocopied in black on coated white Fasson Crack'N Peel Plus sticker paper.
In the 1980s, Diana had carried on a high-visibility campaign to support people with AIDS at a time when many treated them as untouchable pariahs. As a result, her death was felt dearly by many LGBTQ people. In San Francisco, the tragedy even prompted a memorial march from the gay Castro neighborhood to the British Consulate.
The sticker provides a concrete reminder of that symbolic public mourning and of the wider context in which it transpired: the long years of trauma and grief from massive losses to the AIDS pandemic.
In the 1980s, Diana had carried on a high-visibility campaign to support people with AIDS at a time when many treated them as untouchable pariahs. As a result, her death was felt dearly by many LGBTQ people. In San Francisco, the tragedy even prompted a memorial march from the gay Castro neighborhood to the British Consulate.
The sticker provides a concrete reminder of that symbolic public mourning and of the wider context in which it transpired: the long years of trauma and grief from massive losses to the AIDS pandemic.