Name/TitlePoster - 'Your Gloves Don't Match Your Shoes' Exhibition Poster

About this objectA poster advertising the Norwich Gay Men’s Health Project exhibition of Aids activists and safer sex art for World Aids Day 1995. The slogan references a protest chant used to mock police officers who often wore rubber gloves when policing Aids protests to protect against the imaginary danger of becoming infected by touching someone infected with HIV.
Text reads:
Norwich Gay Men's Health Project presents for World AIDS Day 1995; Your Gloves Don't Match Your Shoes; An exhibition of Aids Activist and Safer Sex Art to Enact and Entice; Tuesday 28th November until Saturday 9th December 1995, at Green City Central, 42-46 Bethel St, Norwich; 9Open Tuesday-Saturday, 10am-5pm, Late night Thursday); World AIDS day, 1th December 1995. For more information, please call 01603 627514

MakerNorwich Gay Men's Health Project

Maker Roledistributor

Date Made1995

Period1990s

Place MadeNorwich

Medium and Materialspaper

MeasurementsA3

Subject and Association KeywordsLGBT

Subject and Association KeywordsLGBT+

Subject and Association KeywordsLGBTQ

Subject and Association KeywordsLGBTQ+

Subject and Association KeywordsLGBTQIA

Subject and Association Keywordsgay

Subject and Association Keywordsevent

Subject and Association KeywordsAIDS

Subject and Association Keywordscharity

Subject and Association KeywordsExhibition

Subject and Association Keywordsart

Subject and Association Keywordscommunity

Subject and Association DescriptionA4 poster for the 'Your Gloves Don't Match Your Shoes' exhibition. The poster features a policeman in uniform wearing red high heels and yellow washing up gloves.

Named CollectionNorfolk Heritage Centre: Norfolk LGBTQ+ Collection

Credit Line"The Norfolk Heritage Centre’s collection of printed ephemera (some 67,000 individual items) offers a unique insight into the changing nature of everyday life in the east of England. These types of primary, uninterpreted documents were produced only for short-term use (they were never intended to be kept). The Norfolk LGBTQ+ Collection is comprised of ephemera (leaflets, posters, flyers), maps, magazines, books, badges, photographs, zines, amongst many other items telling local LGBTQ+ stories. The collection has been donated by local LGBTQ+ groups and individuals, including Norwich Pride and the Norfolk LGBT+ Project.
Object Record: Norwich Gay Men's Health Project"

Object Typeposter

Object numberQNFK 2023.120

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