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Blue t-shirt.
"Louie, Don't Shoot! Paid for by Concerned Citizens Against Stupidity"

The t-shirt references conservative Republican Louie Welch's off-the-air comment that one way to stop the AIDS crisis is "to shoot the queers." Welch later lost the Houston mayoral election to Kathryn J. Whitmire.


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GCAM T-shirt Collection

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Rights

Reproduction and use of this material may require permission from the copyright holder. Please contact the Gulf Coast Archive and Museum of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender History, Inc. or Wearing Gay History for more information.

Citation

“Louie, Don't Shoot!,” Wearing Gay History, accessed April 19, 2024, https://wearinggayhistory.com/items/show/2109.

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