Paul Francis Busby – Australian AIDS Memorial Quilt panel

Quilt panel, part of Australian AIDS Memorial Quilt, in memory of 'Paul Francis Busby', cotton / metal / synthetic textile / ink / plastic, made in New South Wales, Australia, about 1993 Rectangular quilt panel, landscape orientation with white cotton background, backed. It has a pale blue outline around the edges. In the top left corner there is a large black tie with sequins and a pair of white gloves below it. Below the gloves there is a patch with the words 'Most Improved Average Australian Ten Pin Bowling Congress'. Below that is a metal badge with OBC Leichhardt and the following numbers in separate badges attached to it: 125, 150, 175, 200, 500. In the bottom left corner there is a patch with a tropical scene 'Relais de Kuberka' (New Caledonia) and next to that a flag patch of the United States of America. In the centre there is the logo of Bootscoot Sydney Australia with pink cowboy boots and a pink triangle, to the left of that is a flag patch of the province of British Columbia, Canada. In the top right hand corner there is a fabric photograph edged with blue ribbon with Paul Francis Busby embroidered in blue at the top and the dates 24.2.58 - 28.2.93 in ink below it. In the bottom right hand corner there is a singlet with the name Paul Busby in ink on the neck band and the Bootscoot Sydney Australia logo on it. Between the fabric photo and the central logo is a rainbow patch, a patch for an athlete from the 1986 San Francisco Gay games and a patch with ATCB Leagues Club 1990, showing ten pin bowling. The letters NF 93 are embroidered in red in the bottom right corner.