"First Class Queer, Second Class Citizen" button
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Blue and red square button with "First Class QUEER, Second Class CITIZEN" 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.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: District of Columbia
topic: label: Subject
content: LGBTQ
label: Subject
content: Gay Rights
label: Subject
content: LGBTQ 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: 2016.0236.04
label: accession number
content: 2016.0236
label: catalog number
content: 2016.0236.04
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 1/2 in x 1 1/2 in; 3.81 cm x 3.81 cm