"Honor Perversity" button
date: label: date made
content: 1994
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Round rainbow button with "HONOR PERVERSITY" in white writing.
label: Description (Brief)
content: From the first LGBT pride march in Austin, Texas, in June 1995. A facet of the LGBTQ struggle for civil rights is establishing queer positivity and identity. To do so, designers have produced slogans that play on words or assert aspects of queer identity; over the years, buttons have become an effective way to communicate these ideas to both members of the community and mainstream American society. A common slur used against LGBT people was that they were “perverted.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: LGBTQ Rights
label: Subject
content: LGBTQ
label: Subject
content: Gay Rights
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Trey Durant
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.0236.07
label: accession number
content: 2016.0236
label: catalog number
content: 2016.0236.07
objectType: label: Object Name
content: button
label: Object Name
content: LGBTQ button
label: Object Name
content: pin
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/4 in; 3.175 cm