"We're heavily inspired by slogans & graphics from vintage anti-capitalist queer badges, stickers & t-shirts because they echo a hope for something more than assimilation.
Old queer anti-fascist patches & badges were intended to let passing fascists know that they are your enemy, and to let any passing queers know that they have a comrade in you - in equal measures"
- 2023 article for
Genderswap
Check out one of our favourite badge archives, Paud's Pins . This discovery of 130 button badges was found in a London attic in 2018, dating from the 1980s and originally belonging to Paud Hegarty, former manager of Gays the Word bookshop
