A pride march poster from 1991 featuring a collection of headshots of people, arranged in a grid formation, showing people smiling and posing decorated with a 90s style graphic overlay in bright pink and black
WA Museum Boola Bardip

Pride in Posters

Location

WA Museum Boola Bardip
Perth Cultural Centre, Perth / Boorloo

Dates

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Dates

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Wednesday 1 November – Tuesday 5 December

Tickets

Included with General Admission

This exhibition has now finished. Please visit Exhibitions to see what’s on at the Museum.

The first 10 years of Pride in Western Australia

Explore and celebrate the first ten years of Pride in Western Australia (1990-1999) through this exhibition of Pride posters from the WestPride Archive.

Pride WA has been integral to the Western Australian community since 1989. Growing out of a community movement protesting law that actively discriminated against members of our community and evolving to incorporate a festival and events calendar.

These posters show the evolution of a community celebrating in unity while living through a time of the AIDS Crisis and historical discrimination against LGBTQIA+ people.

In this collaboration between WestPride Archive and Pride WA we celebrate PrideFEST 2023 by looking back at those first ten years.

A pride march poster from 1991 featuring a collection of headshots of people, arranged in a grid formation, showing people smiling and posing decorated with a 90s style graphic overlay in bright pink and black next to an information panel detailing the details of the march
A pride march poster from 1992 featuring a blue background with drawing-style photographs of naked bodies in different artistic positions, arranged like a border around a yellow heart with a yellow, hand-drawn line-art aesthetic. The word TRIBES technorganic are prominantly displayed at the top of the poster in bold blue and white text, and a large amount event information in included at the bottom in small white text
A pride event poster from 1993 with a black background and a vibrant purple and pink passionfruit in the centre, which appears to explode yellow flesh and black seeds across the poster. The words Lesbian and gay Pride Fruit are written in purple and yellow bold letters, with a heart logo in the top centre and small yellow and purple text at the bottom
A pride event poster from 1994 with a black background and a vibrant rainbow sun in the centre, with a silver and black heart, and yellow rays. The words lesbian and gay pride are written at the top in yellow writing, and the words Ride on Pride 1994 are written inside the sun. Smaller text is written in purple and yellow.
A pride event poster from 1995 with a black background and the word 'XES' in a vibrant red colour, with the words A lesbian and gay journey to the dark side across the right side of the poster. The Pride logo in a red line-drawn heart with silver spikes sits in the top left corner, surrounded by red accents
A pride event poster from 1995 with a vibrant pink and purple background, and images of people in elaborate costumes and makeup on the right-hand-side of the image, with an oversaturated graphic filter. The words Diversity + unity = Pride is written in the top left hand corner with the Pride logo in a spiked heart in the left-hand-side centre.
A pride event poster from 1996 featuring a photograph of a patchwork, embroidery-style quilt decorated with a colourful assortment of patterned and plan squares of fabric. Four nude figures made of material are sewn in the centre surrounded by the words Unity and Diversity Equals pride 1996.
A pride event poster from 1996 with a black background and neon green highlights, giving it a technology or extra-terrestrial aesthetic. The words The XES Files are written in the centre of the poster, with the Pride logo, in a spiked heart, visible in the background under the words Lesbian and Gay Pride WA Inc Presents
A pride event poster from 1997 with a black background and blue silver shapes including the gendered signs for female and male, interwoven to represent lesbian and gay relationships, interwined to create a cross-like shape, surrounded by four pierced nipples in circles. The word XESSORISE is written in the same shiny, bold silver-blue style underneath
A pride event poster from 1997 featuring a blue sky and cloud backdrop with the word Pride written in a gold cursive script with diamond-shaped shining rays emanating outwards from the word in a circle shape, in all the colours of the rainbow. Event information is written in a cursive script underneath
A pride event poster from 1998 with a 1970s-style design featuring a green background with colourful purple yellow and orange cubes containing various images of people and drawings. The words Eternal GlamNation are written at the top in a purple and orange groovy font, with event information written in the random gaps between graphic squares
A pride event poster from 1998 with a space theme, featuring 6 people in leather clothing, standing in dramatic stances, with a robotic creature behind them. The word XESIV is written in bold letters at the top, with the words Lust in Space written along the bottom. The whole poster has a purple colouring
A pride event poster from 1999 designed in a black and orange style with the word ODYSSEY Our Journey to Visibility in bold letters at the top of the image, with a stone-like texture. A series of Greek-inspired drawings of members of the queer community is featured at the bottom of the image.

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