QUEER / We Do Recruit
date: label: date made
content: circa 1999
name: label: Associated Name
content: Shepard, Matthew
label: maker
content: American Apparel
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Matthew Shepard was a college student, targeted for being gay, robbed, and brutally murdered in Laramie, Wyoming, in 1998. This is one of many T-shirts sent to the Shepards after their son's murder.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Black short sleeved tee shirt, size L. Front of shirt features a pink and white graphic of a lit bomb with the word "QUEER" written on it in white print. Back of the shirt features a pink rectangle (perhaps a stylized ID card) with the words "WE DO / RECRUIT / QUEER STUDENT UNION / UCSB" printed in pink. University of California, Santa Barbara.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: LGBTQ
label: Subject
content: Gay Rights
label: Subject
content: LGBTQ Rights
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Dennis and Judy Shepard
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2019.0004.04
label: catalog number
content: 2019.0004.04
label: accession number
content: 2019.0004
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tee shirt
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 29 1/4 in x 34 1/2 in; 74.295 cm x 87.63 cm