'Gay Liberatn,' a 1981 work by acclaimed sculptor Gee Segal, evc Stanford’s longtime tert LGBT equaly.
Contents:
- VANDALISM OF GAY LIBERATN MONUMENT AT STANFORD UNIVERSY
- 200 AT STANFORD ASSAIL ATTACK ON 'GAY LIBERATION' ARTWORK
VANDALISM OF GAY LIBERATN MONUMENT AT STANFORD UNIVERSY
Gee Segal’s ‘Gay Liberatn’.
Gay Liberatn exists two stgs New York and at Stanford. The work memorat the 1969 Stonewall rebelln that is often ced as the begng of the morn gay rights movement. It was an act of urage for the universy to display this work at a time when gay men and lbians voked ntroversy even when simply relaxg public, like the two young upl Gay Liberatn picts.
200 AT STANFORD ASSAIL ATTACK ON 'GAY LIBERATION' ARTWORK
Gay Liberatn was vandalized twice, 1984 and 1994. Content warng: discsn of homophobic vlence. Vandalism on Stanford Universy’s mp agast “Gay Liberatn” sculptur transformed the monument honorg the gay rights movement to a physil remr of the LGBTQ muny’s ntued fight agast hate and vlence the 1980s and 90s.
Stanford’s stg of “Gay Liberatn” isn’t alone; the send stg ris New York Cy Greenwich Village, across the street om the se of Stonewall.
The btal vlence of the attack was a plete flip om the origal spiratn behd “Gay Liberatn.