Another, for my friend Stephen, had the first two lines from This Mortal Coil’s “Kangaroo.The Birthday (1915) by Marc Chagall. I also made a shirt for my friend Dan using phrases from Us Swerve, a performance by Alex Baczynski-Jenkins at the Swiss Institute in 2016. The grey tee was a gift for Conor, my brother and fellow Peter Hujar fan. We went separately, but the experience drew us closer together. I only found out about the Temple on the last day it was open, and so did George. You could light a votive candle and write someone’s name who died from AIDS-related complications in a large book. In 2017, artists McDermott & McGough transformed the Church of the West Village basement into a Victorian-era chapel inspired by Wilde’s visit to America in the 1880s. The purple tee was for George, and it commemorates The Oscar Wilde Temple. I have given my brother four Marc Hundley tees as birthday gifts over the last seven years, ha! This Christmas, I decided to make my own versions for a few friends. I am a big fan of Marc Hundley’s artwork-particularly his t-shirts. That’s so insane! Erin’s shirt is a 1992 souvenir from the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., where the Ruby Slippers have been exhibited continuously since they were anonymously donated in 1979. The NIS prepared to hunt Dorothy down and convince her to give them the names of homosexuals,” Randy Shilts reported in his 1994 book about LGBT people in the US Military. And so: “ believed that a woman named Dorothy was at the hub of an enormous ring of military homosexuals in the Chicago area. Another example is one I learned recently: In the early ‘80s, while investigating homosexuality in the Midwest, Navy intelligence officers learned that gay men referred to themselves as “friends of Dorothy.” However, the officers didn’t understand the phrase’s meaning and connection to The Wizard of Oz.
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For example: the New York Public Library has a vast ACT UP archive, including a series of Wizard of Oz-themed posters which take aim at Rudy Giuliani (Tin Man), Bill Clinton (Cowardly Lion), Newt Gingrich (Wicked Witch of the West), and George Pataki (Scarecrow). Yet it’s so deeply connected to queer culture and history, in surprising and complex ways. Below, I’ve shared the stories of this year’s tees.Īccording to the Library of Congress, The Wizard of Oz is the most-seen film of all time. All three zines will be available at F&M’s beautiful Brooklyn shop throughout Pride Month. Gay Tees, and two other zines I’ve made, are part of Fredericks & Mae’s group exhibition The Homosexual Objét, which opens on May 17. They are unique artifacts of queer community, celebration, and resilience. This year, I made an effort to hunt for more vintage gay tees. I think it’s fascinating to see such a searing and poignant text-delivered in the midst of a worsening AIDS crisis-screen printed on the back of a Hanes blank. On the back, there’s a transcript of former Boston City Councillor David Scondras’s address at the National March on Washington in August, 1987. My first zine only featured one vintage tee. I had so much fun making the zine, I decided to do another one this year. I photographed them at parties, at protests, and in my bedroom. Last year, I made a zine called Gay Tees-pictures of great gay t-shirts I saw throughout the year. As part of her annual zine ‘Gay Tees,’ writer Emily Manning goes through 16 playful and poignant t-shirts and the stories behind them.
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