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It’s obv, but nohels worth sayg: The terr sign dtry has been built on the talents of gay people. The ventor of the morn profsn—Elsie Wolfe—was a gay woman.

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It’s an old stereotype: the gay terr signer. Ltle data exists regardg how many gay men are out the sign dtry around the world, but ’s whout a doubt a iendlier dtry than, say, profsnal sports. On the ocsn of World Pri month, Interr Dign reached out to gay sign profsnals around the physil and virtual worlds to get a sense of where thgs stand today, om Tulsa to Turkey. * gay interior decoration *

Countls inic rators have been gay men.

Anyone will tell you that this was, is, and will ntue to be a good dtry to be gay .

Forty years ago, you might have seen a lot of gay men’s apartments Archectural Digt, but you wouldn’t have read about their boyiends or partners. And while the sign world self is a welg environment, gay signers who step outsi the bubble of showrooms smopolan ci will regnize that tolerance is very much alive.

A WORLD OF PRI: GAY DIGNERS TALK ABOUT ACCEPTANCE AND CHALLENG

To celebrate Pri Month, Bs of Home spoke wh 10 gay men and women om all rners of the sign dtry to discs their history, their experienc and their hop for the future. While the sign world has always been a place of acceptance for gay people, hasn’t always celebrated their sexualy alongsi their talent. For much of the 20th century, even well to the 1990s, was tacly unrstood that many male rators were gay, but that fact wasn’t always acknowledged the media—or even, some s, by the clients who hired them.

Jamie Drake, signer: I didn’t have a g-out-of-the-closet moment, particularly; I was touch wh the fact that I was gay sce I was very very young.

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I knew some terr signers and assumed they were gay—there was only one I knew to be straight. Robert Couturier, signer: Beg raised France, our attu toward homosexualy is not the puranil view that Ameri has.

Couturier: [Several proment gay signers] got married. It jt wasn’t acceptable to be gay, pecially society.

Drake: I thk [gay signers who married women] probably felt they uld socialize circl wh hetero upl easier beg a uple wh a tradnal notn of a wife. The AIDS crisis vastated gay muni all over the world.

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Pri: An oral history of beg gay the sign dtry .

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