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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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To: denydenydeny
May I drop an old chestnut here?

"Get back in your damn closet!"

Been a while...

41 posted on 03/25/2015 11:12:09 AM PDT by W. (Democrats + their media stooges wanted the US out of Vietnam so the Communists would win!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

42 posted on 03/25/2015 11:20:25 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("Dressed In Blue" - http://youtu.be/iAtvVsXvWCo)
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To: denydenydeny

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.


43 posted on 03/25/2015 11:25:25 AM PDT by AnalogReigns (Real life is ANALOG...)
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To: denydenydeny

I got a sweater for Christmas. I wanted a screamer.


44 posted on 03/25/2015 11:28:52 AM PDT by Mich Patriot (Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown were judged by the content of their character.)
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To: denydenydeny

Was it made from anal hair?


45 posted on 03/25/2015 11:29:42 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: bigbob

The males should be labeled with a better descriptor—coprophiliac comes to mind.


46 posted on 03/25/2015 11:31:23 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: tet68

What message do you think Tim Horton will write on HIS coffee cups?........


47 posted on 03/25/2015 11:35:50 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: denydenydeny

How bout the AIDS blankets? Did that die out? Pun intended.


48 posted on 03/25/2015 11:42:56 AM PDT by showme_the_Glory ((ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government))
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To: MeshugeMikey

I believe that’s actually an UGLY sweater.


49 posted on 03/25/2015 12:04:32 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks ( _\\//)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Imagine some poor infant screaming in terror after being faced with that mess!!


50 posted on 03/25/2015 12:06:57 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: ResponseAbility
Is it a turtleneck?

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!

51 posted on 03/25/2015 12:29:38 PM PDT by Eaker (You are really amazing Eaker. - Swordmaker 02/14/15)
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To: Slings and Arrows

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 ...”)


52 posted on 03/25/2015 12:35:39 PM PDT by thanatz
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To: thanatz

Careful - Lady Gaga will steal your ideas.


53 posted on 03/25/2015 12:41:58 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("Dressed In Blue" - http://youtu.be/iAtvVsXvWCo)
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To: denydenydeny

Nuke it from orbit!


54 posted on 03/25/2015 1:22:58 PM PDT by vpintheak (Call the left what they are - regressive control-freaks)
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To: denydenydeny

Kids? Homosexual kids? Or kids propagandized into believing they are homosexual? Child abuse victims, IOW.

HOMOSEXUAL, because there’s nothing GAY about it.


55 posted on 03/25/2015 1:25:42 PM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & Ifwater the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: MeshugeMikey

“If you want to destroy my sweater
Hold this thread as I walk away”


56 posted on 03/25/2015 1:29:30 PM PDT by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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To: denydenydeny

Are the lampshades next?


57 posted on 03/25/2015 1:33:37 PM PDT by fwdude (The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
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To: denydenydeny

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...


58 posted on 03/25/2015 1:51:38 PM PDT by zzwhale
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To: MeshugeMikey

That looks like one of those awful Ralph Lauren Christmas sweaters.


59 posted on 03/25/2015 2:09:26 PM PDT by beelzepug (You can't fix a broken washing machine by washing more expensive clothes in it.)
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To: denydenydeny

Comments at the website are hilarious, for such a morbid subject.


60 posted on 03/25/2015 2:09:28 PM PDT by fwdude (The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
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