The LGBTQ community is fierce & will not go quietly into the night We are focused on providing quality gay pride clothing and accessories for the entire family. A comment that included the word gay got the nations largest LGBTQ+ rights. Wear with confidence the beautiful colors of the pride rainbow. “The item is only available on and we’ve temporarily pulled it from our assortment until the concern is resolved.”ĪCT UP added of the unsanctioned T-shirt, “If you want to support our work buy from us: /gear/. Human Rights Campaign uses the word gay & Tik Tok suspends them.
“This shirt was designed by our vendor partner, The Phluid Project, who is working directly with ACT UP to address their concerns,” a Target spokesperson said in a statement to Rolling Stone. The shirt was still listed for sale on the Target site as part of a larger Pride-themed collection Friday morning, but was removed from the retailer’s website Friday afternoon. “In the Eighties, gay activists in New York inverted the pink triangle used to identify homosexuals in Nazi concentration camps and added the slogan ‘SILENCE = DEATH.’ During the height of the AIDS crisis, they plastered this image around the city and released a manifesto declaring ‘silence about the oppression and annihilation of gay people, then and now, must be broken as a matter of our survival.'” “This product honors the challenges a generation of mostly gay men faced with ignorance and injustice,” the item’s description states. If you want to support our work buy from us: We have been fighting the commodification of AIDS for years and this is the latest edition. Both and did not get permission to use “SILENCE = DEATH” art.
