The New York Times, “This Artist Just Gave Away Half a Million Dollars in Clothes”

Another hoodie bears the slogan “Not Your Gay Friend,” inspired by Bash Back!, the queer anarchist movement from the early 2000s. “I think that a lot of gay men really lack aggression,” Melgaard says. “It was very interesting that there was actually one movement that was very aggressive.” He stops short of connecting that point of view to current political climate, though. “A lot of people think it’s a response to the election, but it’s really not,” he explains of the hoodie. “We were working on these ideas a long time before Trump was president.”

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