{"id":2309,"date":"2015-12-01T13:46:25","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T13:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/?p=2309"},"modified":"2015-12-01T13:46:25","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T13:46:25","slug":"world-aids-day-red-ribbon-pendant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/2015\/12\/01\/world-aids-day-red-ribbon-pendant\/","title":{"rendered":"World AIDS Day: Red Ribbon Pendant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_973\" style=\"width: 178px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2014\/10\/IMG_20141020_170445319.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-973\" class=\"wp-image-973 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2014\/10\/IMG_20141020_170445319-168x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20141020_170445319\" width=\"168\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2014\/10\/IMG_20141020_170445319-168x300.jpg 168w, https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2014\/10\/IMG_20141020_170445319-575x1024.jpg 575w, https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2014\/10\/IMG_20141020_170445319.jpg 1456w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 168px) 100vw, 168px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-973\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Red Ribbon display case in 2014 exhibition<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>This Red Ribbon pendant was donated to the LSHTM Archives by Lyn Rothman, the founder of AIDS Crisis Trust and current patron and board member of the Elton John AIDS Foundation. She kindly offered to donate the pendant which was designed by her friend, Andrew Logan, the English artist and jewellery-maker.<br \/>\nThe pendant was designed when the first AIDS ribbons appeared and having seen many of his friends die from AIDS, Andrew felt it was a fitting celebration of their lives.<br \/>\nThe original red ribbon was designed by New York-based Visual AIDS Artists Caucus in 1991 as a consciousness raising symbol, not as a commercial or trademark tool, and therefore the original creators wished to remain anonymous and the image is free of copyright.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1274\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2014\/12\/Red-Ribbon-Pendants1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1274\" class=\"wp-image-1274 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2014\/12\/Red-Ribbon-Pendants1-300x250.jpg\" alt=\"Red Ribbon Pendants[1]\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2014\/12\/Red-Ribbon-Pendants1-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2014\/12\/Red-Ribbon-Pendants1-1024x853.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2014\/12\/Red-Ribbon-Pendants1.jpg 1466w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1274\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Red Ribbons<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The first red ribbon worn publicly was by Jeremy Irons at the 1991 Tony Awards and soon became renowned as an international symbol of AIDS awareness, becoming adopted as the symbol of World AIDS Day that same year.<\/p>\n<p>To read more about the history of the Red Ribbon please visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldaidsday.org\/the-red-ribbon.php\">http:\/\/www.worldaidsday.org\/the-red-ribbon.php <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Red Ribbon pendant was donated to the LSHTM Archives by Lyn Rothman, the founder&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":347,"featured_media":1274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27649],"tags":[18589,44779,21260,52801,44716],"class_list":["post-2309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives","tag-aids","tag-archives","tag-hiv","tag-red-ribbon","tag-world-aids-day","odd"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>World AIDS Day: Red Ribbon Pendant - Library, Archive &amp; 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