Proper Conduct. On October 6, 1989, Police Rioted in the Castro... [poster]

[Queer Nation; Fernando Aguayo-Garcia]

[San Francisco]: [Queer Nation], 1991. 12x35.5 inch poster, very good, with updated rally information pasted over the original text near the bottom. We have handled the cyanotype version of this poster before, but this was made by a different process, and clearly intended for public posting.

Poster for a protest organized by Queer Nation in San Francisco to demand justice for victims of the 1989 Castro Sweep Police Riot, when more than 200 San Francisco police officers reacted to an ACT UP march by invading the gay Castro District, declaring the entire neighborhood an unlawful assembly and violently clearing the streets. The Queer Nation protest took place at the San Francisco Hall of Justice following a Police Commission finding that the police sweep of the Castro had constituted “proper conduct.” The poster was designed by gay Latino artist and activist Fernando Aguayo-Garcia.

Cat.No: 217175

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