Photo: Gay Richmond Billboard

GayRVA Staff
August 26, 2011

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The Gay Community Center of Richmond’s new billboard overlooking I-95 is now up.  GayRVA.com reported earlier this week on the recreation of the 1987 billboard project.

Flashback to 1987 and you would have seen billboards scattered around the city with messages like “Someone You Know is Gay…Maybe Someone You Love.”  At the time, the pioneering campaign was spearheaded by the Richmond-Virginia Gay Alliance under the leadership of Guy Kinman.

Now 25 years later, the Gay Community Center of Richmond plans to bring new life to that project by republishing the message on a billboard overlooking the center’s location off I-95.

The billboard in 1987. 

“That year a small group of activists came together to spread a message of understanding and compassion,” president Jay Squires said in astatement on the GCCR site.  ”Raising money through small donations they paid for a campaign to educate Richmonders about a simple fact of life – that gay people were their neighbors, their colleagues and their family.”

Photo courtesy of Gregg Johnson.

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