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Meet the 'Gay Sweater' Made from the Hair of 100 LGBT Kids
TruthRevolt.org ^
| 3/25/15
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."
TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: creepy; homosexualagenda
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When we first started it, it was weird and creepy Right the first time.
To: denydenydeny
Holocaust Museum, Germany has piles of hair, and garments made from it.
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posted on
03/25/2015 10:29:20 AM PDT
by
Scrambler Bob
(an icon of resistance within the oppressed patriots, who represent resilience in the face of SSV)
To: denydenydeny
EWWWWWWW Hairs from where? No way jose would I want to be wearing or be near that sweater.
To: denydenydeny
When we first started it, it was weird and creepy... Good call. You could always bind a few books in their skin if you want a real political statement.
To: denydenydeny
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posted on
03/25/2015 10:30:08 AM PDT
by
Tigerized
(Your Personal Safety is Yours, and Yours Alone. Aim Small, Miss Small.)
To: denydenydeny
Next they’ll be lobbying congress to pass a law for grant funded non-profit sustainable gay clothing.
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posted on
03/25/2015 10:30:10 AM PDT
by
Baynative
(You can judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.)
To: Scrambler Bob
NO, I did NOT just call LGBTs NAZI.
But you can think for yourself.
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posted on
03/25/2015 10:30:19 AM PDT
by
Scrambler Bob
(an icon of resistance within the oppressed patriots, who represent resilience in the face of SSV)
To: denydenydeny
Pretty sure there are some “gay lampshades” out there from the WWII era that predate this.
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posted on
03/25/2015 10:31:07 AM PDT
by
Boogieman
To: denydenydeny
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posted on
03/25/2015 10:31:17 AM PDT
by
ColdOne
(I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
To: denydenydeny
They want dialog? How about “get that thing away from me you crazy queer!”
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posted on
03/25/2015 10:32:02 AM PDT
by
bigbob
(The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
To: denydenydeny
When one of them goes straight, does it unravel?
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posted on
03/25/2015 10:32:40 AM PDT
by
struggle
To: denydenydeny
[The goal] is to spark a dialogue about homophobia and transphobia.”
Queerly enough, no mention of cisnormaphobia
or hetrophobia.
Odd.
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posted on
03/25/2015 10:33:05 AM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: denydenydeny
I’d be more impressed if they made it from belly button lint
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posted on
03/25/2015 10:33:49 AM PDT
by
Mount Athos
(A Giant luxury mega-mansion for Gore, a Government Green EcoShack made of poo for you)
To: denydenydeny
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posted on
03/25/2015 10:34:16 AM PDT
by
Maceman
To: denydenydeny
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posted on
03/25/2015 10:35:28 AM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(Support Principle: http://www.tedcruz.org)
To: bigbob
IOW a sweater made from 100 abused CHILDREN.
How very Dr. Mengala of them.
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posted on
03/25/2015 10:35:44 AM PDT
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: denydenydeny
The only thing more creepy would be watching Baraq wear it on national tv.
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posted on
03/25/2015 10:36:29 AM PDT
by
nascarnation
(Impeach, convict, deport)
To: denydenydeny
Like, “Oooh! That sweater is so gay!”
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posted on
03/25/2015 10:37:16 AM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: denydenydeny
Creeping the world out, one sweater at a time!
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posted on
03/25/2015 10:38:13 AM PDT
by
Baynative
(You can judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.)
To: denydenydeny
Meet the 'Gay Sweater' Made from the Hair of 100 LGBT KidsUmmm, ok....I'll ask it...what kinda hair?
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posted on
03/25/2015 10:38:39 AM PDT
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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