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Artist to mark 50 years of legal gay relationships with graphic billboard takeover

on Jul 27, 2017 | 0 comments

By Katie Deighton

Public artist Martin Firrell will take over billboards across England and Wales from today (27 July) to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act, which legalised sexual relationships between gay and bisexual men in England and Wales for the first time.

As part of Firrell’s wider Remember 1967 campaign, digital billboards owned by Clear Channel and Primesight will go live with creative representing key ideas from the original gay liberation movement, namely the specific demands of its 1960s activists.

The posters, which will be held in the out of home companies’ inventories for a month, include slogans such as: Read full story ›

Source: The Drum