![]() “This product honors the challenges a generation of mostly gay men faced with ignorance and injustice,” the item’s description states. ![]() If you want to support our work buy from us: We have been fighting the commodification of AIDS for years and this is the latest edition. Both and did not get permission to use “SILENCE = DEATH” art. ![]() Twitter Users With a Million Followers Are Getting ‘Paid’ Blue Checks, Like It or Not We have been fighting the commodification of AIDS for years and this is the latest edition.” On Twitter, asked if they were aware of the Target item and if they’re receiving any proceeds from its sale, ACT UP wrote, “We can answer that for you: No. However, the “Silence = Death” slogan and the inverted pink triangle logo - the triangle was used by the Nazis to identify and persecute homosexuals beginning in 1933 - has long been associated with the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) organization, which were given the rights to the symbol and phrase from the Silence = Death Project that coined it in 1987. Social media users noticed a “Pride Adult Silence Is Death” shirt on Target’s website, with the item’s listing noting that the online-only garment was a collaboration with the Phluid Project, a clothing label that heralds “gender-free and purpose-driven shopping, with a spotlight on queer, trans, black, Latinx, and women-owned brands,” according to its website. Target is being accused of selling merchandise with the LGBTQ rights slogan “Silence = Death” without permission and without compensating the non-profit organization that owns the rights to the phrase.
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