Guerrilla Theatre costume

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Titles Guerrilla Theatre costume
Description Costume worn for Guerrilla Theatre production. Blue hospital gown with an upside down pink triangle and white paint stripes. AIDS demonstration at the St. Paul Civic Center. Berean League was holding their AIDS conference and this was a protest against their conservative views and suggestion to quarantine people with AIDS. Characters were in white face and in a wire enclosure, then marched in later. The protest turned out to be disruptive, probably was covered in the television and papers; 1980's.
Quantity 1 item
Format Content Category: artifacts
Measurements 130 centimeters length
175 centimeters width
Nomenclature costume (character dress)
Materials miscellaneous media
cotton
polyester
paint
Creation Made by: Guerrilla Theatre
Made in: Saint Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota, United States
Subjects Berean League Fund (Saint Paul, Minn.)
Used in: Saint Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota, United States
Politics and government
St. Paul Civic Center
Gay-Lesbian-Bisexual-Transgender
AIDS (Disease)
Clothing. Men's Special Purpose Clothing. Unclassified
Dates Creation: Not earlier than 1983 - Not later than 1989
Holding Type 3D Objects
Identifiers 1996.247.1 (Accession Number)

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