Browse Items (11 items total)

Black shirt.
Stylized music staffs with square blue notes and text, "We Make The Music, October 10, 1987 Minneapolis, MN"

Origin Unknown. Please contact Wearing Gay History if you have any information regarding this shirt.

Green shirt.
"Music in the Zoo 15th Anniversary 2007" with partial guitar design.
Sleeve: Sue McLean & Associates, Inc. www.suemclean.com
13000 Zoo Blvd, Apple Valley, MN 55124

Bright pink shirt.
Triangle with instruments inside (french horns, violins, clarinets, harps). Text: "Minnesota Philharmonia."
Back: Black music note image.

Grey shirt.
Purple triangle with blue circle with French Horns in it. Text: "Minnesota Freedom Band 15."

White shirt.
Various wind instruments projecting rainbow colors against a dark blue background. Text: "Beyond the Rainbow LGBA Vancouver, 1990"
Lesbian and Gay Band Association

White Shirt. Minnesota Freedom Band Duplicate copy found in Tretter Collection

White shirt.
Navy blue collar. American flag, Greek lambda symbol "1984 Lesbian and Gay Bands of America" "Los Angeles '84"

One of the 72 t-shirts originally printed with the Lambda in the reverse "h" position to represent marching Lambdas for the marching bands. By turning the t-shirt 90 degrees to the right (counter clockwise) you can see the Lambdas in their more traditional position. The response to the Marching Lambdas was so negative that all the remaining t-shirts were manufactured in the traditional style.

White shirt.
Quarter note, rainbow colors/flag, "We Shall be Heard"
Origins unknown. Contact Wearing Gay History if you have any information on this shirt or design.

Likely from a gay chorus.

White shirt.
White text in blue and purple rectangles: "Minnesota Freedom Band." Central design of two french horns in a blue circle, bordered on the left by a pink striped triangle.

white shirt.
Images of people, sea foam green, purple, orange text: "1 out of 10 therapists recommend Romanovsky and Phillips for their patients who listen to music"

Romanovsky & Phillips is a gay singing duo named after its members, Ron Romanovsky and Paul Phillips. They are best known for their original recordings and live performances featuring songs combining humor with poignant observations about the lives of gay men (and to a lesser extent, lesbian women) in contemporary American society.

White Shirt.
Minnesota Freedom Band