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Title: Gays around a sign with a Biblical quote
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.
Description: Photograph shows a small group of people including Wiggsy Sivertsen (back to camera) standing around another woman holding a sign that reads "The wages of sin is death. Romans 6:23" The words are configured so that the letter A from wages, I from sin, D from death and S from Romans are in alignment vertically. Those letters are also in a different color so that the word "AIDS" is clearly visible.
Wiggsy Sivertsen co-founded BAYMEC and GALA, the Gay and Lesbian/Bisexual Student Alliance at SJSU, and helped organize the first indoor Gay Pride Day Celebration at SJSU in 1975.
Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 8-bit Grayscale. Auto Level image processing and compressed into JPEG
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
7.5 x 9.5 in.
Identifier: islandora:80_1170
filename: sahl_portraits_043
islandora: 80_1170
Language: English
Subject: Activists
Banners
Demonstrations
Gays
Religion & politics
Religious tolerance
Sivertsen, Wiggsy
Place: San Jose
California
Relation: Ted Sahl Collection

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