The red ribbon was born from grief and activism, then grew into a global symbol of awareness, remembrance and solidarity. Test, share, talk, donate, remember!

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🌈 LIMITED EDITION QUEER MOVIE PRINT 🌈

I'm so so excited to finally be able to launch this beautiful print celebrating the best of QUEER CINEMA in collaboration with brilliant illustrator @filipanamorado!

Also there's a fun mini-game we made where you can guess all 25 movies that are in the poster based on the clues lol

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The pink triangle was used by early gay liberation movements as a deliberately uncomfortable symbol. Other gay people like Harvey Milk disliked its use.

It became more widespread after 1987 (12 years after the film) when the Silence = Death project used it in their iconic AIDS awareness poster.

Andy Campbell wrote in his "Queer X Design" history of queer graphics,

"In design terms, their innovation was to appropriate the pink triangle, a symbol of Nazi concentration camps, and to flip it so it stood on its base—conveying the strength of an otherwise stigmatized social position."

It's a great example of the kind of inversions used throughout the film. The dress is conservative, but visibly marked as transexual. The pink triangle is a symbol of hate that's been flipped around into a symbol of queer community and struggle.

The whole commentary structure of the film was to take the most extreme conservative backlash fears about how queer liberation will destroy society and then make the cheesiest, campiest, drag horror B movie out of it as a way of throwing it all back in their faces.

I have a history with christian belief and after de-constructing it I still holds merrit for me. Something that stuck with me is the idea of a homecoming. That after all the struggles there will be a “welcome home” that acknowledges these pains—in part already with friends in the here and now, and hopefully in a resolving way also in the hereafter.

And two media that express this feeling for me are Silent Planets “The visible Unseen” and the ending of Gunbusters.