Sticker: "Stop Homophobic Art Bigots"

Typographic sticker in the signature style of Queer Nation/San Francisco produced via Mac­intosh desktop publishing using the Lucida Sans Black and Lucida Sans Bold typefaces. The design livery was developed by the cofounder of the organization, Mark Duran. This sticker pro­tests attacks on queer artists by Republican Party politicians — one of the central right-wing strategies in the United States in what has come to be known as the Culture Wars.

Notably the sticker was a response to the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, blocking grants awarded in 1990 by its advisory panels to visual and performance artists Karen Finley, Holly Hughes, Tim Miller and John Fleck. Dubbed the NEA Four, the artists produced work dealing with sexuality and gender—and three were openly queer. They sued, and the grants were restored by a federal court—leading Congress to ban NEA funding to individual artists.

CONDITION:Minor creasing; slight wear to outside lower corner.