2010.54.15246

Poster has black ink printed on white paper. At the top is "Unfortunately, History / Has Set The Record / A Little Too Straight." Below the text are ten photos (two rows, five columns) of famous people supposed to be homosexual - James Baldwin, Willa Cather, Errol Flynn, Michaelangelo, Edna St. Vincent Millay / Cole Porter, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bessie Smith, Walt Whitman and Virginia Woolf. At the bottom of the poster is "assume that all important contributions are made by heterosexuals, and you''re not only thinking straight, but narrow. / Sexual orientation has nothing to do with the ability to make a mark, let alone make history. / National Coming Out Day / Oct. 11, 1988".