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Text on Button | NUKE A GAY WHALE FOR CHRIST |
Image Description | White text on a blue background |
Curl Text | [illegible] MERCHANDISING 1515 E. FRANKLIN AVE. MINNEAPOLIS MN 55404 [illegible] |
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Additional Information | One of several slightly different versions of this slogan, “Nuke a Gay Whale for Christ” reflects the perceived superficial nature of many social activist movements of the 1970s. The slogan, and its several variations, touches on the nuclear anxieties, the growing push for gay rights, the Greenpeace “Save the Whales” campaign, and the popular adage that “Jesus Saves,” all of which permeated the ethos of 1970s America. Other than buttons, the slogan was also a popular bumper sticker in the 1970s and 1980s. |
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Oslund, K. (2004). Protecting fat mammals or carnivorous humans? Towards an environmental history of whales. Historical Social Research, 29, 63–81. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.29.2004.3.63-81 |
Catalog ID | HU0237 |