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Poster for “GALAS, the Great American Lesbian Art Show, “featuring the work of artists Lula Mae Blocton, Tee Corinne, Betsy Damon, Louise Fishman, Nancy Fried, Harmony Hammond, Debbie Jones, Lili Lakich, Gloria Longval, Kate Millett, and others. The poster also promotes a GALAS documentation exhibition featuring slides of work by participating lesbian artists across the United States, and a guide to GALAS events throughout Los Angeles.

Scope and Contents Schedule and poster for Three Weeks in May, a political art piece speaking out on rape, organized by Women’s Community Inc.Three Weeks in May exposed the extent of reported rapes in Los Angeles during a three-week performance in May, 1977. The performances revolved around daily police reports stamped on a wall-sized map of Los Angeles in the public shopping mall below City Hall. During the three weeks, Lacy went to the LAPD to obtain confidential rape reports from the precious...

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Poster promoting sexual education for Lesbians about HIV, published by London Lesbians and Gay Switchboard, the second-oldest support line in the United Kingdom for gays and lesbians, founded in 1974. In the 1980s it was the leading source of information on HIV and AIDS. The poster was illustrated by Kate Charlesworth, prominent lesbian cartoonist and activist whose work has been consistently published since the 1970s.