Wearing History: T-Shirts from the Gay Rights Movement
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| Rating | : | 4.46 (524 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1555839959 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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Steve Gdula has published work in Details, The Advocate, and The Washington Post. . He has also lectured at universities and museums, most notably the Philadelphia Museum of Art on a variety of topics including music, food history, kitchen culture and gay and lesbian issues
About the Author Steve Gdula has published work in Details, The Advocate, and The Washington Post. . He has also lectured at universities and museums, most notably the Philadelphia Museum of Art on a variety of topics including music, food history, kitchen culture and gay and lesbian issues
Wonderful pictures Seth J. Frantzman If there is one thing that every sexually liberated house needs it is a book about shirts from the gay revolution and this book is a testament not only to that revolution, but to photography, humour and genious. From Ronald Reagan to Coca-Cola the gay movement appropriated cultural symbols for its own means and wore them with pride. This is, of. A Great Read For Everyone I highly recommend this book for persons of any orientation. Gdula leads us down a path few of us have traveled and awakens memories that maybe we didn't understand at the time. For example, somewhere in my vestigial memory I was aware of the term Stonewall Riots and I knew about Harvey Milk. Through this book I am reminded why they were/are im. I excepted more I purchased this book along with a couple of other t-shirt books for inspiration for my business. I was a little disappointed by this book. The book did not show a lot of designs like it outlines in the description. The book has a lot of background history on the t-shirts and why they were made but very little actual pictures of gay rights t-sh
From the sad to the troubling, the poignant to the humorous, this is the definitive pop culture chronicler of our lives. Through imagination, wit, and a passion for equality, the activists who wrote, designed-and more importantly-wore the shirts helped define a movement. The T-shirt is a part of Americana, and nowhere is this reflected more than in the gay and lesbian community's struggle for civil rights. Steve Gdula has written for Details, The Advocate, and The Washington Post. He plans to develop Wearing History into an art exhibit, which would tour the country and be available online.