Recently about town I have spotted posters advertising hand-holding. Specifically, gay hand-holding. They are simple black and white bill-posters which offer no sense that the folk who produced them (the unidentified, guerrilla hand-holding campaigners) had a budget. They could have been made on a photocopier. Just a silhouette of two men holding hands and the slogan ‘why hide it?’ Women are told to do it anywhere. The rest will follow.
The first time I came across this poster I stopped for a little stare, wondering where I stood with its slogan. Political message wrapped up in a cute little action plan. Hold hands. Be out and proud. Challenge the world. Nice in theory, fine in Brunswick street, possibly dangerous in other spaces. Or at least uncomfortable.
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