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Queer X Design: 50 Years of Signs, Symbols, Banners, Logos, and Graphic Art of LGBTQ

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The first-ever illustrated historical past of the enduring designs, symbols, and picture artwork representing greater than 5 many years of LGBTQ pleasure and activism.


Beginning with pre-liberation and the years sooner than the Stonewall rebellion, spanning around the Nineteen Seventies and Nineteen Eighties and thru to the brand new millennium, Queer X Design celebrates the creative and subversive designs that experience powered the resilient and ever-evolving LGBTQ motion.
The variety and inclusivity of those pages is as inspiring as it is vital, each in the case of the items represented in addition to within the array of creators; from buttons worn to protest Anita Bryant, to the unique ‘The Long run is Feminine’ and ‘Lavender Risk’ t-blouse; from the trademarks of Excitement Chest and GLAAD, to the poster for Cheryl Dunye’s queer vintage The Watermelon Woman; from Gilbert Baker’s iconic rainbow flag, to the reasonably laments of the AIDS duvet and the impassioned rage conveyed in ACT-UP and Gran Fury ephemera.
More than simply an obtainable historical past e book, Queer X Design tells the tale of queerness as one thing intangible, uplifting, and indestructible. Discovered amongst those pages is sorrow, loss, and combat; an affective variety that queer designers and artists harnessed to result in political and societal amendment. However right here may be: pleasure, wish, love, and the long-lasting struggle without cost expression and illustration. Queer X Design is the effective, inspiring, and colourful visible historical past of activism and pleasure.

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