“It’s kind of like a teaser for a history that very little is known about.”Īs Ms. “To be honest, at first, I didn’t even think they were going to want to use it because it’s more provocative than how they’re attempting to depict gay people,” Ms. The designer of the logo, Carrie Moyer, a Lesbian Avenger herself, had sold it to the Gap. But its back story turned out to be more complicated than a case of coldblooded corporate appropriation. “The Lesbian Avenger name and our bomb logo have always existed and been made available as open-source name/graphics to be used in good faith only by and for Lesbian Avengers activities, actions and projects - not to be sold or used to raise funds by a commercial venture.”īy then, the shirt had disappeared from the Gap’s site. “Our lesbian history and movement are not for sale,” the letter read.
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