Silence = Death: Reclaiming the Pink Triangle in AIDS-Era New York
Tue, Dec 03
|Zoom
Program attendees will hear first-hand from one of its designers, activist Avram Finkelstein, in an intergenerational conversation with historian Dr. Jake Newsome, who will also provide an overview of the pink triangle’s transformation from a Nazi-era symbol to one of LGBTQ liberation.
Time & Location
Dec 03, 2024, 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM EST
Zoom
About the event
This free virtual program is part of the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project’s “The Historian & The Activist: Cross-Cultural LGBTQ New York” series, made possible by a grant from Humanities New York with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The Silence = Death poster, featuring the pink triangle, is one of the most recognizable and evocative images in the fight against AIDS. Designed in 1986 by the Silence=Death Project, a New York City activist art collective later known as Gran Fury, the poster has appeared at countless AIDS demonstrations around the world. Program attendees will hear first-hand from one of its designers, activist Avram Finkelstein, in an intergenerational conversation with historian Dr. Jake Newsome, who will also provide an overview of the pink triangle’s transformation from a Nazi-era symbol to one of LGBTQ liberation. Amanda Davis from the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project will host and there will…