Harvey Milk Historical LGBT Poster

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I just finished a new piece… a poster (comprised of 140+ names) for the Public Celebration to Honor Harvey Milk, which will take place Nov. 8, 2017 at Harvey Milk Plaza in San Francisco.

The event will dedicate two installations… "Harvey's Halo" is a temporary installation that will be visible for seven nights over two weekends. 15 colored lights, in the colors of the rainbow flag, will beam up vertically from the former BofA building in Harvey Milk Plaza and will be visible all the way down Market Street to the Ferry Building.

This poster was done to promote the event, but I wanted to do something a little more special than a decorative announcement, so I thought I would create Harvey’s face using figures from throughout LGBT history. 


As I am, by no means, an expert on the subject, I had to do a lot of reading to compile a representative list. There is, obviously, no way to display the full history in one poster, but I hope I approached a fair representation. It’s an amazing collection of individuals who have played a role (some tragic, some heroic, many trailblazers) in the quest for equality.  (feel free to list others in the comments...)

The names on the artwork on in the list are in no particular order. 

Tough to see a lot of the names… so, here they are:


Alexander The Great

Randy Shilts

Karl Heinrich Ulrichs

Karl-Maria Kertbeny

Jeremy Bentham

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Oscar Wilde

Magnus Hirschfeld

George Cecil Ives

Emma Goldman

Elsa Gidlow

Henry Gerber

Karol Maciej Szymanowski

Radclyffe Hall

Katharine Lee Bates

Federico García Lorca

Edythe D. Eyde

Christine Jorgensen

Alan Turing

José Julio Sarria

Everett George Klippert

Carl Wittman

Frank Kameny

Nancy Wechsler

Freda Smith

Betty Berzon

James M. Foster

Madeline Davis

Kathy Kozachenko

Angela Morley

Leonard Matlovich

Allan Spear

Billie Jean King

Mary C. Morgan

Althea Garrison

Robert Hillsborough

Brandon Teena

Rita Hester

Matthew Shepard

Angie Zapata

Ally Lee Steinfeld

Roberta Achtenberg

Deborah Batts

Rachel Maddow

Patria Jiménez

Tammy Baldwin

Kim Coco Iwamoto

Ellen DeGeneres

Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir

Elio Di Rupo

Jason Collins

Tim Cook

Donna Ryu

Vicki Marlane

Bayard Rustin

Barbara Gittings

Michelangelo

Walt Whitman

Gertrude Stein

Sylvia Rivera

James Baldwin

Harry Hay

Audre Lorde

Sally Ride

Deborah Sampson

Walt Whitman

John Maynard Keynes,

Allen Ginsberg

Graham Chapman

Truman Capote

Andy Warhol

Noël Coward

Elton John

Freddie Mercury

RuPaul

Keith Haring

John Gielgud

Sean Hayes

Ian McKellen

John Waters

James Whale

George Takei

Jodie Foster

Rosie O’Donnell

Lily Tomlin

Alice Walker

Martina Navratilova

Maureen Duffy

Abby Wambach

Sheryl Swoopes

Tennessee Williams

 Marcel Proust

E.M. Forster

Langston Hughes

D.H. Lawrence

Yukio Mishima

Armistead Maupin

Sappho

Gore Vidal

Pedro Almodovar

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Bruce Nugent

Frank Ocean

Ashok Row Kavi

Dan Choi

Barney Frank

Wendy Carlos

Sun Wenlin

Ellen Barrett

Del Martin & Phyllis Lyon

Herman Melville

Kristin Beck

Mark Bingham

Tori Johnson

Roger Casement

Pedro Zerolo

Jan Hamilton

Hans Scholl

Oliver Sipple

Daniel Hernandez Jr.

Eric Alva

Margaret Cho

Leo Varadkar

Ana Brnabić 

David Kato

Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera

Stephen Donaldson

Cleve Jones

Xulhaz Mannan

Larry Kramer

Gilbert Baker

Peter Tatchell

Marsha P. Johnson

Barbara Smith

Diego Vinales

Adrienne Rich

Morris Kight

John E. Fryer

Craig Rodwell

Randy Wicker

Kay Lahusen

Nikolay Alexeyev

Dan Savage

Leonardo da Vinci

Lady Gaga

 Xavier Bettel

I’ll be creating a limited-edition print of this work soon… you can check my twitter ( @ZenPopArt ) or my website ( www.zenpop.com ) for details…

Please feel free to share this far and wide. I’m hoping people will be interested in the names of the people that comprise this art and do some investigating into those you may be unfamiliar with. There are some remarkable stories.



Note: I'm not positive this is the place to post this, if it belongs somewhere else, feel free to let me know. Cheers!


Cross-posted at Daily Kos.