Sale 2514 - The Pride Sale, June 20, 2019

215 c SHEONA WHITE (DATES UNKNOWN) Gay Pride Mardi Gras ’81 . Offset lithographed poster, 19 3 / 4 x30 inches, 50x76 cm. [Lucifoil Posters.] 1981. [700/1,000] The fourth iteration of the Sydney parade, in 1981, was held in February instead of June. In the southern hemisphere, February is a summer month and June a winter month, making the parade a summer celebration. It also meant disconnecting the parade from its original roots which connected it to Stonewall and aligning with the world’s larger Mardi Gras celebrations in New Orleans and Rio de Janeiro. Ironically, in 1981 the weather was so rainy that the event had to be postponed. 216 c ALEXANDER (DATES UNKNOWN) Gay Pride Week / Stockholm. Lithograph poster, 16 1 / 2 x11 3 / 4 inches, 42x29 3 / 4 cm. 1989. [300/400] The first Gay Pride parade was held in Stockholm in 1977 and was expanded in 1997 with the formation of the Stockholm Pride coalition. 215 216