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White shirt.
"The Twin Cities Annual Hollywood Academy Awards Event / 2000" within black and gold ticket design.
Back: Sponsors within ticket strip outlines, including "Dayton's, Sam Goody, Suncaost, Subaru, Evian, ACT II, Mpls St. Paul, Focus Point, Mall of America, Beefeater..." etc.
Party benefits HIV/AIDS organizations

White shirt.
"ID Lubricants" in blue, with "Got lube?" on the back.

White shirt.
"here!" with exclamation point in red circle

Here TV is an American premium television network targeting LGBT audiences.

White shirt. Orange United States outline, reversed.
Text: "Some of my best friends are Queer in America. Random House."
Book by Michelangelo Signorile

White shirt. Pink text shaped in a triagle, which is made up of names of famous queer people
Including Margaret Mead, William Shakespeare, Janis Joplin, Michelangelo, Leonard Bernstein, Walt Whitman, Leonardo da Vinci, Colatie, Tchaikovsky, Amy Lowell, Marcel Proust, Richard Wagner, Christopher Marlow, Olivia Newton-John, Lord Byron, Roy Cohn, King James I, Socrates, Aristotle, Alexander the Great, Harvey Fierstein, Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Virginia Woolf, Richard the Lion Hearted, Emperor Hadrian, Henry Thoreau, Alice B. Tokias, Harvey Milk, Zeno of Elee, Sappho, John Maynard Keyes, King Gustav III, Sandro Bonicelll, Audre Lorde, Kate Millett, Billie Jean King, Ellen Ginsberg, Elizabeth , H.D. and more...

Yellow shirt.
Brown text with the names of various famous queer people
Including Bill Tilden, Andre Gide, Willa Cather, Oscar Wilde, Richard The Lion-Hearted, Francis Bacon, Hans Christian Anderson, W.H. Auden, Lord Byron, Tennessee Williams, Horatio Alger, Walt Whitman, Leonardo Da Vinci, Cole Porter, Sappho, Petr Illich Tchaikovsky, Marcel Proust, Joan of Arc, Alice B Tokias, Alexander the Great, Gertrude Stein

Black bag.
Yellow equal sign and text, "The Agenda with Joe Solmonese. Only on XM. Xmradio.com hrc.org/theagenda"

Black shirt.
Queer as Folk logo, which instead says "Queer as Fuck." "Don't panic" logo on the back.

White shirt with red sleeves.
Rainbow flag with Target symbol. "glbt network"
Back: Target logo
College group/ Corporate sponsored GLBT professional network

Duplicate copy found in Tretter Collection: http://wearinggayhistory.com/items/show/1125.

Blue shirt.
Hand painted in white, "Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."

Purple shirt.
"Torch Song Trilogy"
collection of three plays by Harvey Fierstein. Adapted in a feature film, released in 1988.

Yellow shirt.
"A Chorus Line" with line of dancers above text.

White shirt.
"Rainbow card" and phone number. On back, purple person standing surf-style on a motorcycle. "Get it. Use it. Got it?"
Likely an image of Martina Navratilova.

a VISA credit card designed for the lesbian
and gay community.

Gray shirt.
Magic Johnson caricature. Lakers 31. Los Angeles Lakers.

Light green shirt.
Naked Anita Bryant sitting on an orange and holding a banner that says "Squeeze a Fruit for Anita"

Black/orange cap. "Q Television Network"
Side: Our life. Our way. QTN.
Q Television Network was an American cable television channel which aired programming targeted to the lesbian, gay, and bisexual audiences.

White visor. "Q Television Network"
Side: Our life. Our way. QTN.
Q Television Network was an American cable television channel which aired programming targeted to the lesbian, gay, and bisexual audiences.

White shirt.
"Do it Beebo. Do it. I can't stand it, do it to me"
Back: The Beebo Brinker Chronicles (lesbian pulp fiction)
www.beebobrinker.com

Blue shirt.
"Moment of Silence: 2pm Stop, Stand, Remember: Marshal March: Lesbian and Gay Pride NYC" June 27, 1999
Back: The Mystery of Irma Vep A Penny Dreadful (a play)

Off-white shirt.
Image of Miss Richfield "Hollywood 10"
Hollywood 10 was an Academy Awards extravaganza at the State Theater and Planet Hollywood in Minneapolis, largest Academy Awards night party sanctioned y the Academy outside of Los Angeles. Miss Richfield was the emcee.

Back: Sponsors, including Dayton's, Starbucks Coffee, American Airlines, RSVP, Evian, Abbott Northwestern Hospital, American Express, Financial Advisors, Planet Hollywood, Bass, Papa John's, Regal Minneapolis Hotel, Mall of America etc.

Red shirt.
Hand snapping, in reference to "How I Learned to Snap: A Small Town Coming-of-Age and Coming-Out Story" by Kirk Read
Gift of Harvey Hertz

Black shirt.
"A condom, a condom, My kingdom for a condom"
A play on a famous Shakespeare line from Richard The Third (A horse, a horse! My kingdom for a horse!)

Gift of Edward Swanson in 1988.

Tan shirt.
Front: Cows with rainbow udders. "Got pride? GLBT Twin Cities Pride 1999" "Staff"
Back: Staff

Black shirt.
Queer as Folk, above rainbow bar.

White shirt.
Image of Gertrude Stein

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"

White shirt with red sleeves.
Rainbow flag with Target symbol. "glbt network"
Back: Target logo
College group

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.

Black shirt.
Dove, yellow, orange, pink, maroon. Globe/peace sign green and blue. New Years Eve 1967-1968" "Fillmore, West, San Francisco"
Numerous buttons: Birdcage, Out for Change, 8th Annual Minnesota AIDS Walk, Names Project, Chicago Pride 1994, Imperial Sovereign Court of the Ice Castle, InterPride '90,

Fillmore was a famed '60s counterculture music venue draws crowds for indie & major label acts

White shirt.
Baby blue border "never blend in"
Back: "Milk" from raffle following screening of 1984 documentary "the Times of Harvey Milk" in St. Paul student center 2009. Jean Tretter introduced the film and spoke about early GLBT activism in the Twin Cities.
2017 Buford Ave, Falcon Heights, MN 55108

white shirt.
Black and white photo of two men. Yellow, red, blue text: "Gay American Composers" CRI Promotional Material
Label: Composers Recordings
Lou Harrison. Ned Rorem. David Del Tredici. Robert helps. Lee oiby. Chester Biscardi. Jerry Hunt. Conrad Cummings. Chris DeBlasio. William Hibbard Robert Maggio.