2010.54.4349

• bisexual awareness
• gay
• lesbian

Poster has a light turquoise background with black and darker turquoise text. On the left is a photograph of Walt Whitman sitting on a fence. He has pink scribbles on his suit. On the right is "Walt Whitman (1819-1892) Great American poet, Believed to by gay/ Homophobia may have stopped you from knowing about Walt Whitman. Who else does homophobia stop you from knowing?" In the center is a poem "We two boys together clinging." Following a series of homophobic incidents on the at UMass Amherst campus in 1985, the Program for Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Concerns was established, Later renamed The Stonewall Center in 1995. [LMC]