Subscribe to Breaking NewsVanasco: Obama artist makes gay marriage poster
The amazing Shepard Fairey – who designed the ubiquitous Barack Obama campain image with Obama’s profile in heroic colors – revealed today his Defend Equality poster, which is a protest against Proposition 8.
I like this image, a fist raised in solidarity – or anger – with sunbursts radiating from it.
It is similar in message to the No on H8 poster that’s been circulating – in that case, a rainbow fist.
Both images are interesting, I think, because they’re not about convincing others to join our cause, or portraying us as loving families who are devestated about having our rights taken away. Instead, they are visual calls to action for gays and lesbians to stand and fight for our rights.
Both images, also, are kind of – militant. I wonder if this is a new phase of the gay civil rights movement. Certainly we have seen a lot of anger directed at Mormons and African-Americans. I wonder if this anger, turned to (hopefully positive) action, is the beginning of some kind of Gay Power movement.
The image certainly captures the feeling of gays and lesbians at the moment.
What do you think? Is this image saying what we want it to? What should the slogan of the gay marriage movement be?
I like it as well! It’s based on a poster that came out over the summer before the election. I put it in my window of my apartment complex which started some good discussions with my neighbors.
I think this is the sign we need to promote our rights as gays and lesbians. And i think it is time for us to stand up and say no more, we are not going to take this. But we need to follow Martain Luther King Jr.’s example and do something like he did.