KISS lips
date: label: date made
content: 1980s
name: label: user
content: Shepard, Matthew
label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Matthew Shepard was a college student, targeted for being gay, robbed, and brutally murdered in Laramie, Wyoming, in 1998. Judy Shepard said that Matt gave her the lips and she used to put them in Matt's school lunch every day.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Stuffed lips covered in red sateen fabric. A red sateen loop for hanging is attached at the top. Evidence of a white tag that has been cut off. "KISS" is embroidered in white on the lower lip.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: LGBTQ Rights
label: Subject
content: LGBTQ
label: Subject
content: Gay 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: 2019.0004.14
label: catalog number
content: 2019.0004.14
label: accession number
content: 2019.0004
objectType: label: Object Name
content: KISS lips
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall (including loop): 5 1/2 in x 5 in x 1 in; 13.97 cm x 12.7 cm x 2.54 cm