2010.54.597
(53.34 cm HIGH x 35.56 cm WIDE)
Poster has a black background with small white drawings of different sports that are being played at the games. A few sports represented are track, tennis, javelin, baseball, basketball, bowling, pool, wrestling, golf, lifting, and boxing. The center right edge has "Gay Olympic Games I/ San Francisco/ Aug. 28- Sept. 5, 1982." Note the Olympic-like but not identical symbols used; fear over being sued by the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) was a legitimate concern. In the 1987 Supreme Court case San Francisco Arts & Athletics, Inc. v. United States Olympic Committee ("Gay Olympics") the Court upheld the constitutionality of a statute granting the USOC power to enjoin homosexual activists from using the name "Gay Olympic Games" for an athletic competition. [LMC]
