Gay Liberatn Front poster | The New York Public Library

Contents:

• GAY LIBERATN FRONT POSTER
• THE GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT
• GAY LIBERATN FRONT POSTER IMAGE
• THE GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT

GAY LIBERATN FRONT POSTER

Some highlights of materials clud the project are visually stunng posters and signs created by ACT UP durg the 1980s; inic posters created for the “Gay-Ins” anized by the Gay Liberatn Front durg the 1970s as well as early pri celebratns; signs om the historic march on Washgton; and some of the earlit signs created for monstratns anized by 1950s-era homophile anizatns like the Mattache Society.

Gay Liberatn Front poster, c. Not jt for the straight, male, whe, ” prted on the Sylvter prt is jt one of the many posters featured ONE Archiv Foundatn’s new web-based exhibn Days of Rage, a curated archive of posters and smaller Xeroxed flyers spanng the early gay liberatn movements of the 1970s to the safer sex public tn mpaigns of the mid-1990s.

THE GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT

Dpe their llective expertise, the curatorial team didn’t simply cull om ONE Natnal Gay and Lbian Archiv’ recently digized llectn of over 4200 posters. For example, Tracy’s ssn wh Daniel Hyo Kim, they look at a poster that was tied to the Briggs Iniative [a 1978 ballot iative seekg to ban anyone who had engaged “public homosexual activy” or “public homosexual nduct” om workg California public schools].

We’re back here aga wh the trans bills that are proliferatg all over the natn and the “Don’t Say Gay” bills mandatg what n and nnot be said the classroom.

GAY LIBERATN FRONT POSTER IMAGE

" It was curated by Andy Campbell and -curated by Tracy Fenix and Aten Villacis, anized by ONE Archiv Foundatn, and ma possible by a grant om Los Angel County Department of Arts and mandg actn on the AIDS crisis to llg out homophobic policians, this exhibn honors LGBTQ+ people who ma their voic heard.

THE GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT

Gay is Angry.

Curated by Andy Campbell and anized by ONE Archiv FoundatnDigned by the artist and signer Juan Carlos Vidal and the poet Ntor Latroni 1971, this poster served as the ver of a lendar produced by the Third World Gay Revolutn, which was anized 1970 by Black and Lato members of the Gay Liberatn MORE. Curated by Andy Campbell and anized by ONE Archiv FoundatnHomophobic sger Ana Bryant, a brand ambassador for Florida Cs, led a mpaign 1977 to repeal an ordance Da County, Florida prohibg discrimatn on the basis of sexual orientatn. Curated by Andy Campbell and anized by ONE Archiv FoundatnIn 1976, seven years after the Stonewall uprisgs Greenwich Village New York Cy, Los Angel-based gay and lbian activists sought to hold space for this historic moment.

The text of the poster reads, "Full rights for gays; end racism and sexism; disuny the problem; solidary the answer. Police Raids: Gays to W. Activists were marchg agast gratuo police force agast the gay patrons of Club 80, a sex-on-premis venue the Darlghurst sectn of Oxford Street (Sydney's gay district), which happened jt one week prr to this graphic beg MORE.