Aug 19, 2021 - Sale 2578

Sale 2578 - Lot 214

Price Realized: $ 1,040
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 100 - $ 150

DESIGNER UNKNOWN


I [PINK TRIANGLE] New York 1969 Stonewall 1989.
Offset lithograph postcard, 146x105 mm, 5 3/4x4 1/8 inches. GLAAD, New York, 1989.

On Pride Day in 1989, the Greenwich Village, Stonewall Station Post Office offered patrons a postmark reading "Stonewall Sta. 20 years 1969-1989 Lesbian & Gay Pride June 25, 1989 New York NY 10199" along side a Keith Haring image "Heritage of Pride." Over 15,000 postmarks were applied that day. This is the "first ever gay-related U.S. Post Office cancelation"

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Provenance: Robert Jones collection, former director of Leslie-Lohmann Gay Art Foundation, New York.
A good article on the event can be found here: https://epgn.com/2020/08/12/gay-postmark-drew-outrage-in-the-80s/