Carden: LGBTQ+ T-Shirts

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Title

Carden: LGBTQ+ T-Shirts

Subject

LGBTQ+ T-Shirts

Description

T-Shirts advocating and advertising Champaign-Urbana LGBTQ+ organizations and issues.

Source

Jerry Carden

Date

2021

Collection Items

Prairie Aids Foundation Walk for Life T-shirt
A t-shirt from the Prairie Aids Foundation's 1989 Walk for Life which was to raise money for those suffering from AIDS.

Silence=Death T-Shirt
A T-shirt used as an advertisement for the Silence= Death Project which meant to represent the fact that people who do not speak up for queer people are effectively letting them wither and die

Straight Rights for Gay People T-Shirt
A T-shirt purchased by Jerry Carden to wear with the Gay Community Aids Project volunteers to wear and spread awareness that gay people deserve as much rights as any straight person.

GCAP CARES T-Shirt
A t-shirt made for volunteers of the Gay Community AIDS Project to spread their ideas and awareness as well as to garner publicity.

CU At the Altar T-Shirt
A t-shirt used by activists in Champaign-Urbana to wear at marches and protests for equal marriage legislation in Illinois.
This was part of the national movement for the same sex marriage movement.
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