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."
Id give ya about a nickel for that sweater ....tops...and then only if I could determine its usefulness as a Cleanup Rag
That's so gay.
I can think of several good uses for it, none of them suitable for family viewing.
I’m amazed Jewish groups haven’t complained about this debacle.
Then there's the sweaters made with Mohair...
:)
Ewwwwwww!
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