The flier pictured here gives detailed information to participants about a planned picket line outside Seattle's Public Safety Building to protest the "refusal of the police to begin to adequately protect the lives of gay people from assault on the streets." The event was sponsored by the Union of Sexual Minorities, an organization dedicated to raising awareness around issues related to a racist and sexist society.
This item is one of many gathered by the Seattle-born author, artist, and chronicler of local drag culture, Donald Charles "Don" Paulson (1933-2012), in a collection he "dedicated to everyone who ever participated in a protest March, attended a Vigil, campaigned for Peace, Justice, Liberation, Human or Animal Rights, saved the Planet, welcomed the New Age, fought against Racism, Sexism, Ageism, Homophobia, and Abuse. And to anyone whose voice wanted to be heard in a world too often refusing to listen."
Caption information source: http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv10271 Caption information source: http://www.historylink.org/File/4173
Additional Information: Digital copy of this item available thanks to funding from a 2016 Institute for Museum and Library Services grant. View the finding aid for this collection at https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv10271
Credit: MOHAI, Don Paulson Collection of Political and Social Ephemera, 2002.23.3.53.1
