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Gap Annoys Some Activists With Pride Effort

Gap’s efforts for Pride month this year have angered some veteran activists. A plain white T-shirt includes a bomb encircled by the words ‘The Lesbian Avengers,” the logo of an unsung radical activist group that had its heyday almost three decades ago. “Seeing its insignia at a mass-market retail chain left people familiar with the group confused and divided over whether the T-shirt was more evidence of the corporate commodification of L.G.B.T.Q. allyship or a sign of growing recognition of a marginalized community,” per The New York Times.

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