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PETER HUJAR (1934-1987)
Come Out!!
Silver print, the image measuring 16 1/2x13 1/2 inches, 41.9x34.3 cm., the sheet slightly larger, with printing notations, in pencil, in an unknown hand, on verso. 1969.
with--Come Out, Join the Sisters & Brothers of the Gay Liberation Front. A photograph of the poster created from the image, measuring 21x18 inches (53.3x45.7 cm.). 1969.
This ebullient and optimistic image is considered "the most iconic photograph of Gay Liberation; no image better captures the spirit of the first year after the Stonewall Rebellion." (The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, March-April 2009, p. 28). The image was used on a poster to 'recruit people for the first Gay Pride march in June 1970 on the first anniversary of the Stonewall Riots' (ibid.)
