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Protect Yourself Against AIDS, Native American Women’s Health Education Resource Center, 1980s

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A poster with text and a blue and black drawing of a Native American man and woman looking at each other with a rising sun behind them

Protect Yourself Against AIDS, Native American Women’s Health Education Resource Center, 1980s

Once accepted and even revered in a number of Native communities, “two-spirit” (a gender distinction that describes people with both male and female spirits) Native men and women have faced discrimination since homosexual intolerance was introduced by the dominant American culture. The gender-neutral couple illustrated on this poster is an attempt to reach this audience.
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