Lears of a 'stamp gay dollars' mpaign have vowed to ntue their csa to show the enomic strength of the gay muny spe the threat of legal...
Contents:
- 'GAY MONEY': THE CURRENCY OF CHANGE?
- LEARS OF A 'STAMP GAY DOLLARS' MPAIGN HAVE VOWED...
- THE SECRET ANTI-GAY HISTORY OF THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE
- GAY STAMPS
- GAY RUBBER STAMPS
'GAY MONEY': THE CURRENCY OF CHANGE?
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No one n say for sure how started, but dollar bills wh the words "gay money" or a pk triangle stamped on them are surfacg around the untry, cludg stampg is beg done by gay men and women who want to prove a pot. "The purpose is to show the amount of money that gay nsumers spend, " says Richard, who cled to give his last name.
Richard don't want his full inty known -- not bee he is gay, but bee is illegal to face money. Richard stamps both the pk triangle and the words "gay money" on his dollar bills and knows others who do the far, he has had only one negative reactn om a retailer, he says. "It is not an anized effort, " says Rob Kane, spokman for the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force, a lobbyg anizatn based Washgton.
LEARS OF A 'STAMP GAY DOLLARS' MPAIGN HAVE VOWED...
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"It is an effort om some lol groups or 's a personal way for dividual people to show gay enomic power and to show visibily. "Gay enomic power is a force to be reckoned wh, activists say. Overlooked Opns is a Chigo-based marketg rearch firm that polls gays and lbians.
A January 1992 poll of 7, 500 people found that the average gay male hoehold e was $51, 624, says Rick Dean, a senr vice print at Overlooked Opns. Most -- though not all -- gay hoeholds are childls, two-e upl, which means more disposable e to spread circulatn of "gay dollars" seems to grow whenever the issue of gay and lbian rights is the foreont of the news, Ms.
THE SECRET ANTI-GAY HISTORY OF THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE
Kane stance, she says, more people began stampg their money after the march on many of the dollar bills were seen Pensala, Fla., after a Cy Council member publicly objected to Memorial Day activi that drew thoands of gays and lbians.
Circulatg the stamped money serv the purpose of keepg gay rights issu on the mds of many, Ms. A woman -- the shier -- had jt received a dollar bill wh "gay money" stamped on .
It ma the people thk about gay rights.
GAY STAMPS
As a young gay activist and buddg journalist Salt Lake Cy the early 1980s, I vaguely remembered stamps like that one.
GAY RUBBER STAMPS
She and I -hosted the rad show “Concerng Gays and Lbians” Utah the early ’80s. A number of sourc trace the first “Gay$$” and “Lbian Money” stamps — sometim marked wh a pk triangle — as havg origated San Francis the mid 1970s.
The pk triangle was ed by the Nazis Germany to intify gay men ncentratn mps and was -opted as the symbol of the early gay movement before the rabow flag mostly supplanted . Attorney for the Northern District of Illois issued a cease-and-sist orr to lbian and gay bar owners Chigo who were stampg all the bills g through their bs to the tune of $5 ln a year. "Gay Money" Stamps.
"Gay money": The currency of change? "Stamp Gay Dollars" Campaign.