Pictured here is a flier opposing "The Defense of Marriage Act," legislation proposed in Congress to create a federal definition of marriage excluding same-sex couples. The flier was printed and distributed by the Legal Marriage Alliance of Washington, a group founded in 1995.
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, 2002.23.6.33.2
