The words "Stand together. Walk together" with a repeated list of emergency phone lines representing an advertisement for Gay Pride events in Germany in 1993. Colour lithograph by ComDesign, Berlin, 1993.

[Germany] : [publisher not identified], [1993]

1 print : lithograph, printed in white on red ; sheet 59.4 x 41.9 cm

Stand together. Walk together ... Comdesign Berlin. Date of publication presumed to be between 1993 and 1996 from date of events listed and provenance of impression catalogued Bears logos: Christopher Street Day Berlin 1993 European Lesbian and Gay Pride; Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. IXth International Conference on AIDS IVth STD World Congress Berlin, June 7-11, 1993; Mannometer [with male sign, one inverted] Schwules Überfalltelefon ...; Der Ansprechpartner der Berliner Polizei für gleichgeschlechtliche Lebensweisen: Polizei-Notruf 110 Christopher Street Day (CSD) is an annual European LGBT celebration held in various cities across Europe. Only Germany and Switzerland use the term CSD, in other countries, the same kind of event is called Gay Pride or Pride Parade ... [CSD events are held in] memory of the first big uprising of homosexuals against police assaults that took place in New York's Christopher Street in Greenwich Village on June 27, 1969. The so-called Stonewall Riots took place in the bar Stonewall Inn ... The first German CSDs took place in Bremen and Berlin in 1979" [extract from en.wikipedia.org] Includes perforated (for detaching) emergency numbers along the bottom in German and English: "In an emergency: Police ... Gay Emergency call ... Conference on AIDS Emergency call ..."

Wellcome Collection 673191i

Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe [Berlin] ComDesign Berlin [design] 1993 Germany date presumed to be 1993 from date of events listed 14/01/2009 UkLW Transcription from the item