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• 1 media/CSPG red logo copy.png media/CSPG red logo copy.png 2023-11-10T11:35:42-08:00 Center for the Study of Political Graphics 35 plain 2024-04-11T11:16:17-07:00 34.01112160514007, -118.4149172823111 The Center for the Study of Political Graphics (CSPG) is an educational and research archive that collects, preserves, documents, and exhibits posters relating to historical and contemporary movements for social change. 
  
  LGBTQ+ topics and themes represented in the collections held by the Center for the Study of Political Graphics include LGBTQ+ activism and Politics.
  

  Featured Materials

  Center of the Study of Political Graphics collection, 1900-present

  This collection contains over 90,000 domestic and international political posters and prints relating to historical and contemporary movements for social change. The LGBTQ+ posters primarily consist of protest posters that record LGBTQ+ activism and political organizing. Subjects and topics include marriage equality, HIV/AIDS, boycotts, youth and students, violence against LGBTQ+ people, laws and propositions, and Pride. LGBTQ+ creators featured in the collection include artists Julio Salgado, Ester Hernández, Micah Bazant, Liz Hale, Cheri Gaulke, Alma Lopez, Robert Birch; important art collectives such as Dyke Action Machine (DAM), Gran Fury; feminist art collectives such as Chicago Women’s Graphics Collective, Woman’s Building (Los Angeles), Women’s Action Coalition (WAC), See Red Women’s Workshop (London); organizations such as ACT UP/LA, Queer Nation (Los Angeles chapter), and Christopher Street West. 

  Queer Rights Are Human Rights: Posters of LGBTQ Struggles & Celebrations (online exhibition)*

  For more than 70 years, poster art has been central in fighting for LGBTQ+ rights. Whether homophobia is institutionalized through legislation or conducted culturally through physical, psychological, or emotional violence, it is a human rights violation. Queer Rights Are Human Rights: Posters of LGBTQ+ Struggles & Celebrations shows the power of graphics to expose injustices, defend rights, and celebrate victories.
  
  *online materials available; please note that the Center for the Study of Political Graphics is actively digitizing posters to grow its collection

  Contact the Center for the Study of Political Graphics

  For more information about the Center for the Study of Political Graphics' LGTBQ+ collections and holdings, including citation and copyright information, please contact the archives.
  
  ✉ Email: archives@politicalgraphics.org
  ☎ Call: 310-397-3100
  The Center for the Study of Political Graphics is an L.A. as Subject member. For more information about L.A. as Subject, visit their website here.
• 1 media/Bronstein_bathers__CSD3008 copy.jpg 2023-12-08T13:21:15-08:00 Participants 21 plain 2023-12-08T13:46:20-08:00 LA as Subject member institutions from across Southern California have joined with ONE and LAAS to collaborate on this project. To learn more about each institution and their LGBTQ+ collections, click on the images below.
   

  California Historical Society

  California State Library

  Center for the Study of Political Graphics

  The Clark Library

  Center for Oral and Public History

  California State University, Dominguez Hills, Gerth Archives and Special Collections

  California State University, Northridge

  FIDM Museum and Library