Posted on 03/25/2015 10:27:15 AM PDT by denydenydeny
It's the "the world’s first and only gay object."
Meet the Gay Sweater, an apparel item knitted from the hairs of more than 100 LGBT kids.
The sweater was created by the Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity and was intended to raise awareness of LGBT issues and warn against using the word "gay" as a slur.
“We were walking around school and people were like, ‘That test is so gay and that homework’s so gay and someone said that sweater’s so gay,’” Jeremy Dias, the director of the Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity, told the Huffington Post. “We thought, what would it take to make a sweater that’s so gay to literalize the expression?”
"When we first started it, it was weird and creepy and we thought nobody's going to donate to this," admits Dias. "And then when we started asking queer and trans people to donate their hair, they were like, 'hell yeah, take it.' That sense of oppression is woven into yourselves, into everything you are.
"Every single day I educate, I empower, I train, but art is different, art is unique," he adds. "With art, it's not me sharing my experience or research, it's your experience. You could be excited by it, you could be repulsed by it, or motivated by it or mystified by it. [The goal] is to spark a dialogue about homophobia and transphobia."
"Get back in your damn closet!"
Been a while...
I bet the hairs in it are filled with residue from cocaine, heroin and pot, not to mention alcohol....since homosexuals have a much higher than average rate of substance abuse and alcoholism. Such leaves evidence in the hair.
I got a sweater for Christmas. I wanted a screamer.
Was it made from anal hair?
The males should be labeled with a better descriptor—coprophiliac comes to mind.
What message do you think Tim Horton will write on HIS coffee cups?........
How bout the AIDS blankets? Did that die out? Pun intended.
I believe that’s actually an UGLY sweater.
Imagine some poor infant screaming in terror after being faced with that mess!!
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!
Ooooh, goody! Maybe next we can get Buffalo Bill to start working on a leather jacket to go with the sweater (”It rubs the lotion on its skin ...”)
Careful - Lady Gaga will steal your ideas.
Nuke it from orbit!
Kids? Homosexual kids? Or kids propagandized into believing they are homosexual? Child abuse victims, IOW.
HOMOSEXUAL, because there’s nothing GAY about it.
“If you want to destroy my sweater
Hold this thread as I walk away”
Are the lampshades next?
it can go on the shelf in my store, right next to my foreskin wallet, which when you rub it expands into a four suiter piece of luggage ... ill assign the task to the sock tucker in my store. he used to be a cork soaker in the winery and before that was a coke stacker...
That looks like one of those awful Ralph Lauren Christmas sweaters.
Comments at the website are hilarious, for such a morbid subject.
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