NOH8
I know it's been a while since i posted on here, and I will be posting more from now on (hopefully). Anyway, todays post is a post that i did on my blogspot, but I wanted to post it here as well.
This post is about NOH8. I've been meaning to do a post about this for a while, but I wanted to do a painting to go along with it, and I was only able to that today. So here goes.
NOH8 is a charity which is basically about promoting equality. There mission statement is "The NOH8 Campaign is a charitable organization whose mission is to promote marriage, gender and human equality through education, advocacy, social media, and visual protest.". The actual NOH8 campaign was started up as a response to Proposition 8, which when passed meant that same-sex marriages are banned in California. What Adam Bouska and Jeff Parshley did was create a 'silent protest', photographs were (and still are) taken of "subjects with duct tape over their mouths, symbolizing their voices being silenced by Prop 8 and similar legislation around the world, with "NOH8" painted on one cheek in protest". Over 20,000 people have taken part in this, and the numbers are still growing.




