Erik L. MacDonald, Theatre Rhoceros: A Gay Company, TDR (1988-), Vol. 33, No. 1 (Sprg, 1989), pp. 79-93
Contents:
- HOW A LAVENR RHO BEME A SYMBOL OF GAY RISTANCE IN '70S BOSTON
- GAY RHO
- FOUR COLORS TO INFY: GAY RHO EDN
HOW A LAVENR RHO BEME A SYMBOL OF GAY RISTANCE IN '70S BOSTON
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(Courty The History Project)Two Boston artists, Daniel Thaxton and Bernie Toale, reimaged the rho for a public ad mpaign helmed by Gay Media Actn-Advertisg. Toale, who was also a -founr of Gay Media Actn, explaed that the rho was chosen bee “ is a much maligned and misunrstood animal” and that the lor me om the mixture of pk and blue, a symbolic merger of the mascule and feme.
FOUR COLORS TO INFY: GAY RHO EDN
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The ads were meant to enurage the visibily of the LGBTQ muny March of 1974, Gay Media Actn sent prs packets tailg the ad mpaign to media outlets Boston.
Gay Media Actn didn't have the funds to ver the crease st and the Lavenr Rho ads were put on Media Actn ma the cisn to challenge the MBTA and MTA's cisn to raise the price of the ads through public prott and legal means. Gay Media Actn hired lawyer Richard Rubo to reprent their se urt and mobilized a prott mpaign that rulted hundreds of letters beg sent to the MBTA and 1974 article The Boston Globe tailed the ntroversy of the Lavenr Rho before Boston Pri of that year.