Queer X Design

Queer X Design is the first-ever illustrated history of the iconic designs, symbols, and graphic art representing more than five decades of LGBTQ pride and activism—from the evolution of Gilbert Baker's rainbow flag to the NYC Pride typeface launched in 2017 and beyond.

Organised by decade beginning with Pre-Liberation and then spanning the 1970s through the millennium, Queer X Design is an empowering, uplifting, and colourful celebration of the hundreds of graphics—from shapes and symbols to flags and iconic posters—that have stood for the powerful and ever-evolving LGBTQ movement over the last five-plus decades.

Included in the collection is everything from Gilbert Baker's original rainbow flag, ACT-UP's "Silence = Death" poster, the AIDS quilt, and Keith Haring's "Heritage of Pride" logo, as well as the original Lavender Menace t-shirt design, logos such as "The Pleasure Chest," protest buttons like "Anita Bryant Sucks Oranges," and so much more. Sidebars throughout cover important visual groupings such as a "Lexicon of Pride Flags," explaining the now more than a dozen flags that represent segments of the community and the evolution of the pink triangle.