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Contents:
- LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS
- A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
- FAMO GAY DIGNERS WHO CHANGED HOW WE DRS
LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS
A Christian graphic artist who the Supreme Court said n refe to make weddg webs for gay upl poted durg her lawsu to a requt om a man named “Stewart” and his hband-to-be. * famous gay graphic designers *
Wrten by Los Angel-based art historian Andrew Campbell, Queer x Dign is a llectn of graphic sign documentg the past 50 years of LGBTQ+ life and activism sce the birth of the gay rights liberatn movement 1969. Queer x Dign documents graphic sign om the last 50 years of LGBTQ+ activismThe book foc on the the signs, symbols, banners, posters and logos ed by LGBTQ+ activist groups the US followg the birth of the gay rights liberatn movement. The pk triangle was ed by the Nazis durg world war two to mark male homosexuals.
Uny Prs supported a variety of leftist --om gay liberatn to anti-war prott movements. The two posters (one English, one Spanish--showg the llective's ditn to makg their msag accsible polyglot New York) were created after the first openly gay cy supervisor of San Francis, Harvey Milk, was shot ld blood along wh the mayor Gee Mosne. The murrer was eventually acquted, and gay people rted rponse.
In the gay dark ag (sometime before Ksey’s rearch revealed how many of there actually are), the sparse rmatn available about the gay muny was pure famatn. ‘Homosexual, ’ a medil term associated wh mental illns and synonymo wh pedophilia, was often the only word available for scribg queer people of any kd (excludg slurs). When the Amerin gay liberatn movement started the late sixti, clil terms like ‘homosexual’ and ‘transexual’ were dropped for the more posive ‘homophile’ (and then simply ‘gay’) and ‘transgenr’.
A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
* famous gay graphic designers *
The pk triangle, a hate-fueled mark assigned to gay men by the Nazis, and the black triangle for lbians were both appropriated by the muny.
Graphic signer Tom Doerr chose the Greek lambda for the Gay Activists Alliance, and would eventually bee the symbol for gay and lbian rights worldwi.
For gay bars, pri events, important msag, and any tablishment that is lookg to stake out a fively queer space, say loud and proud wh a bold sign. That’s not so much the se the days, but we gays haven’t totally abandoned the mure approach.
FAMO GAY DIGNERS WHO CHANGED HOW WE DRS
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