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Title: I love my gay son, the leatherman
Contributor: Sahl, Ted (photographer) (Creator)
Contributing Institution: San José State University, Special Collections and Archives
Collection: Ted Sahl Collection
Rights Information: For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact San Jose State University Special Collections & Archives department. http://library.sjsu.edu/sjsu-special-collections/sjsu-special-collections-and-archives
Description: Photograph shows a woman holding a sign that reads, "I love my gay son, the leatherman". The word love is represented by a heart shape. Beside her is a man, most likely her son, who is wearing a leather cap, leather vest and has what looks like a handle of a whip hanging over his shoulder.
Written on recto: "6-9-96, Gay Pride Day celebration".
Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 8-bit Grayscale. Auto Level image processing applied and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS3.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
8 x 10 in.
Identifier: islandora:80_1092
filename: i_love_my_gay_son copy
islandora: 80_1092
Language: English
Subject: Gay men
Leather garments
Signs (Notices)
Parents of gays
Gay Pride Day
Place: San Jose
California
Relation: Ted Sahl Collection

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