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White shirt with red staining
"DRA: Dancers Responding to AIDS"
Sleve: "DRA: Dancers Responding to AIDS"

165 West 46th Street, Suite 1300
New York, NY 10036

gay Levi & leather bar since 1977 Touche Chicago Black shirt. Two men, one in a leather cap, the other in a cowboy hat. 6412 North Clark Street, Chicago, IL 60626 Duplicate copy found in the Gerber/Hart Library and Archives

White shirt.
Blue triangle with capital "M" "Team Minnesota" from Gay Games Vancouver, B.C.
1990 Gay Games Vancouver

White long sleeve shirt.
Globe logo and text: "Sharing a World of Difference: Pridefest 1997"
200 N Harbor Dr, Milwaukee, WI 53202

White tank top.
Rainbow Olympic Rings

White handkerchiefs
"St. Paul Human Rights, Count My Vote" with the state capitol in pink and purple and the text "Twin Cities Gaze Newspaper, Gaze TV, Gaze Radio, St. Paul Minnesota, 1990" in small print on the side

White hat with blue stripes and the text "Castle Royal"
Origins unknown. Contact Wearing Gay History if you have information on this item.

white shirt.
Pink triangle with two stickfigure people over it, possibly depicting someone coming out (one has their hands over their face, and then there's an arrow to the other stick-figure with its arms in the air)

Green polo shirt.
Image on back of saxophone, keyboard, and music notes with a purple background and the text "Bev's Jook Joint."

Bev's was a lesbian bar in the 90's in Superior, WI.
820 Tower Ave, Superior, WI 54880

white shirt.
"Sailing Into the Millennium With Pride 2000; Duluth Superior GLBT Pride" with rainbow sailboats over the text

Purple shirt.
"Affirming the Inherent Worth And Dignity Of Every Person" with an image of pink/purple triangles beneath it (one which looks like a candle) and the text "Unitarian Universalism"

Black shirt.
"Rawhide 2010, New Orleans" with a grey triangle behind it.
Back: "www.rawhide2010.com"
740 Burgundy St, New Orleans, LA 70116

Grey shirt.
Two abstract faces, one purple, one yellow, with a pink triangle at their mouths, surrounded by the text "Take Pride. Take Joy. Take Action. Houston Lesbian & Gay Pride 2000"

Blue shirt.
"Don't Try to Understand Me. Just Love Me." with a thin rainbow line over it

White shirt. "1999 Blazing Saddle" with a horse head and a pink triangle, and an image of a bare male torso with a pink triangle and horse tattoo on the back, along with the text "Blazing Saddle; Des Moines, Iowa" Duplicate copy found in the Chris Gonzalez Library and Archives

white shirt.
"1st Annual Heartland Regional Rodeo, 1997" on the front;
Back: an image of a cowboy on a horse with a pink triangle behind the horse and the text "Heartland Regional Rodeo; June 27-29 1997, Omaha"

White shirt.
"Visible" with the "V" as a pink triangle

White shirt.
"Pray for the Dead and Fight like Hell for the Livinig - Mother Jones 1830-1930" with a rainbow background and two AIDS-ribbons below

White shirt.
"Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays; April 25th, 1993 March on Washington" with an image of the Capitol with a rainbow behind it, surrounded by stars

White shirt.
Sewn image of a lambda held up by six rainbow balloons

White shirt.
Image of Gertrude Stein

Blue and white 3/4 length shirt.
Male symbol, "Christopher Street"

white shirt. Four women holding hands, moon, stars "Women Unite to Take Back the Night. August 22, 1992 Loring Park Minneapolis.
Sleeve: "T" (Transit)
Back: Take Back the Bus

Black long sleeve shirt.
Pink triangle, turquoise records, "Anniversary 15th" "Olivia Records" "the Voice in Celebration of Women!"
Olivia Records was a collective founded in 1973 to record and market women's music.

Black shirt.
Photo of Lily Tomlin sitting atop the Hollywood skyline, solar system "Lily Tomlin" "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe" "Written by Jane Wagner"

Gray long sleeve shirt.
"I Am" "Drake University, a celebration of Womyn week March 24-26, 1996"
Left sleeve: male/female symbols.
Back: collage of quotes
“I am talking about believing that we have the power to actually transform our experience, change our lives, save our lives.” –Cherrie Moraga

“Pretty woman wonder where my secret lies. I’m not cure or built to suit a fashion model’s size. But when I start to tell them, they think im telling lies. I say, the curl of my lips. I’m a woman, Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman. That’s me.” –Maya Angelou

“I am a welder. Not an alchemist. I am interested in the blend of common elements to make a common thing. No magic here. Only the heat of my desire to fuse what already know exists. Is possible. I am the welder. I understand the capacity of heat to change the shape of things. I am suited to work within the realm of sparks out of control. I am the welder. I am taking the power into my own hands.” –Cherrie Moraga

It’s a long long road. It’s a big big world. We are wise wise women. We are giggling girls. We both carry a smile to show when we’re please. We both carry a switchblade in our sleeves.” –Ani Difranco

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.” –Sylvia Plath

“Sometime I said sometimes I hear my voice and it’s been HERE … silent all these years.” Tori Amos

“I found god in myself and I loved her…I loved her fiercely.” –Ntozake Shange

“Be who you are and will be. Learn to cherish that boisterous Black Angel that dirves you up one day and down another protecting the place where your power rises running like hot blood from the same source as your pain.” –Audre Lorde

“I am an endangered species. But I sing no victim song. I am a woman. I am an artist. And I know where my voice belongs. I know where my soul belongs. I know where I belong.” –Diane Reeves

“Out of the nuts of history’s same I rise up from a past that’s rooted in pain I rise I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide, welling and swelling I bear in the tide leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear I rise.” Maya Angelou

“If I have to I can do anything. I am Strong, I am Invincible. I am Woman” –Helen Reddy

“If I cant dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution.” –Emma Goldman

White shirt.
Skull, penis and scrotum, arrows, "Bundle of Sticks" "Fagot, Faggot" "sticks, twigs, a bundle as used for fuel"
"BOS"

Black hat
March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Equal Rights and Liberation
D.C. in '93
Upper Midwest Delegation

Navy blue hat.
Three smiling penises. "Everybody Loves a Happy Penis"

White towel.
"Twin Cities GOOD TIME Softball League"
"June 3-4, 1981"

White paper gift bag
"Randy's Antiques and Gifts" Gay owned gift shop

Black shirt
Orange County Cultural Pride
Look to the Future
1990 Parade and Festival August 11th and 12th