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Title: Wiggsy Sivertsen and anti-rape demonstrators
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 Wiggsy Sivertson with a group of women united against rape standing outside demonstrating. The women are holding a banner and a sign. The banner reads "[Wom]en's [C]enter" and the sign reads "Rape (with the universal symbol for no on the word), women united will never be defeated!". Wiggsy is standing in front of the banner and is looking at the camera.
Written on verso: "Women United Against Rape". 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
4.4 x 6.3 in.
Identifier: islandora:80_1177
filename: sahl_portraits_052
islandora: 80_1177
Language: English
Subject: Activists
Banners
Demonstrations
Rapes
Signs (Notices)
Sivertsen, Wiggsy
Place: San Jose
California
Relation: Ted Sahl Collection

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