QUEER X DESIGN

The first ever illustrated history of the iconic designs symbols and graphic art representing more than 5 decades of LGBTQ pride and activism Beginning with pre liberation and the years before the Stonewall uprising spanning across the 1970s and 1980s and through to the new millennium Queer X Design celebrates the inventive and subversive designs that have powered the resilient and ever evolving LGBTQ movement The diversity and inclusivity of these pages is as inspiring as it is important both in terms of the objects represented as well as in the array of creators from buttons worn to protest Anita Bryant to the original The Future is Female and Lavender Menace t shirt from the logos of Pleasure Chest and GLAAD to the poster for Cheryl Dunye s queer classic The Watermelon Woman from Gilbert Baker s iconic rainbow flag to the quite laments of the AIDS quilt and the impassioned rage conveyed in ACT UP and Gran Fury ephemera More than just an accessible history book Queer X Design tells the story of queerness as something intangible uplifting and indestructible Found among these pages is sorrow loss and struggle an affective selection that queer designers and artists harnessed to bring about political and societal change But here is also j