Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- Round rainbow button with "HONOR PERVERSITY" in white writing.
- From the first LGBT pride march in Austin, Texas, in June 1995. A facet of the LGBTQ struggle for civil rights is establishing queer positivity and identity. To do so, designers have produced slogans that play on words or assert aspects of queer identity; over the years, buttons have become an effective way to communicate these ideas to both members of the community and mainstream American society. A common slur used against LGBT people was that they were “perverted.”
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Trey Durant
- 1994
- ID Number
- 2016.0236.07
- accession number
- 2016.0236
- catalog number
- 2016.0236.07
- Object Name
- button
- LGBTQ button
- pin
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1 1/4 in; 3.175 cm
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- LGBTQ Rights
- LGBTQ
- Gay Rights
- Record ID
- nmah_1813818
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b2-5cd6-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
