Pinback button commemorating Christopher Street Liberation Day: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A button celebrating the 1984 Christopher Street Liberation Day. The button face has a wide light pink margin with dark pink text reading [UNITY & MORE IN '84 / New York City Gays & Lesbians / Remember Stonewall]. The center of the button features a gray silhouette of the Statue of Liberty in a dark pink circle with light pink text that reads [Christopher Street Liberation Day June 24, 1984 / 15th ANNIVERSARY]. Text at the very edge of the light pink margin reads [N.G. SLATER CORP. N.Y.C. 10011 {union label} / Designed by bc graphics/989-7563 / CSLDC © 1984].

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1984
• Created by: Christopher Street Liberation Day Committee, 1970 - 1984
• Manufactured by: N.G. Slater Corporation, American, founded 1936
• Designed by: BC Graphics, founded 1982
• Subject of: Marsha P. Johnson, American, 1945 - 1992
• Subject of: Sylvia Rivera, American, 1951 - 2002
• Type: buttons (information artifacts)
• Medium: ink on paper with metal and plastic
• Dimensions: H x W x D: 2 9/16 × 2 9/16 × 3/8 in. (6.5 × 6.5 × 1 cm)
• Place depicted: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: Identity
• Topic: LGBTQ
• Topic: Politics
• Topic: Sexuality
• Object number: 2014.183.1
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Anonymous Gift
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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