Posted on 03/25/2015 10:27:15 AM PDT by denydenydeny
It's the "the worlds 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 homeworks so gay and someone said that sweaters 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 thats 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."
Right the first time.
Holocaust Museum, Germany has piles of hair, and garments made from it.
EWWWWWWW Hairs from where? No way jose would I want to be wearing or be near that sweater.
Good call. You could always bind a few books in their skin if you want a real political statement.
How stylish.
Next they’ll be lobbying congress to pass a law for grant funded non-profit sustainable gay clothing.
NO, I did NOT just call LGBTs NAZI.
But you can think for yourself.
Pretty sure there are some “gay lampshades” out there from the WWII era that predate this.
Good fn grief.
They want dialog? How about “get that thing away from me you crazy queer!”
When one of them goes straight, does it unravel?
[The goal] is to spark a dialogue about homophobia and transphobia.”
Queerly enough, no mention of cisnormaphobia
or hetrophobia.
Odd.
I’d be more impressed if they made it from belly button lint
Derivative pedophilia.
IOW a sweater made from 100 abused CHILDREN.
How very Dr. Mengala of them.
The only thing more creepy would be watching Baraq wear it on national tv.
Like, “Oooh! That sweater is so gay!”
Ummm, ok....I'll ask it...what kinda hair?
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