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Posted without comment (Original Post) AngryDem001 Jun 2015 OP
K&R Jamastiene Jun 2015 #1
New Yorker Cover this week? big_dog Jun 2015 #27
Love wins! nt riderinthestorm Jun 2015 #2
Great...knr joeybee12 Jun 2015 #3
Perfect!! Pisces Jun 2015 #4
Ladies Liberty and Justice Motown_Johnny Jun 2015 #5
That's pretty brilliant Cal Carpenter Jun 2015 #6
Love it! hifiguy Jun 2015 #7
I'm in awe. That's great. n/t jtuck004 Jun 2015 #8
Awesome! City Lights Jun 2015 #9
Very Impressive! BlueJazz Jun 2015 #10
Awesome, indeed. 3catwoman3 Jun 2015 #11
R&K nt longship Jun 2015 #12
Lovin' it! nt Plucketeer Jun 2015 #13
Priceless cantbeserious Jun 2015 #14
It goes back to 2004 -- here's the full story starroute Jun 2015 #15
Thank you for that background, very interesting. nt Stardust Jun 2015 #20
The gop sees Liberty and Justice DonCoquixote Jun 2015 #16
That's a great way to put it. joshcryer Jun 2015 #26
K and R 47of74 Jun 2015 #17
Before, they mostly gazed at each other from a distance. . . DinahMoeHum Jun 2015 #18
OMG......I love this..... a kennedy Jun 2015 #19
Awesome underpants Jun 2015 #21
That's great. mnhtnbb Jun 2015 #22
Is that Libertarian porn, or what? nikto Jun 2015 #23
Just gonna laugh out loud passnobuck Jun 2015 #24
Fabulous!!!!! Gemini Cat Jun 2015 #25
Very cool. rhett o rick Jun 2015 #28
how beautiful and heartwarming... chillfactor Jun 2015 #29
clever! merrily Jun 2015 #30
Wow! SoapBox Jun 2015 #31
beautiful! nt hopemountain Jun 2015 #32
For ALL! ThoughtCriminal Jun 2015 #33
excellent niyad Jun 2015 #34

starroute

(12,977 posts)
15. It goes back to 2004 -- here's the full story
Fri Jun 26, 2015, 09:08 PM
Jun 2015

I tracked it down through Google image search.

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/09/when-lady-justice-made-out-with-lady-liberty-a-gay-marriage-graphic-was-born/380023/

At the end of February 2004, New York illustrator and graphic designer Mirko Ilic had an assignment: come up with a meaningful image about gay marriage and the legal battles that were beginning to foment. Minh Uong, then the art director of the Village Voice, commissioned him to design and illustrate a cover because he had recently seen a cover that Ilic created for the New York Times Book Review, when I was art director, showing a personification of lady Justice. He requested that Ilic, who is well known for his symbolic acuity, create something with Justice as the focal point.

The title of the article was "I'd Leave the Country, but My Wife Won't Let Me,” and it was about a lesbian couple and their lengthy travails prior to the time when legalizing gay marriage was gaining momentum. “I didn’t think the Justice image was enough because the issue was also about freedom,” Ilic recalled in a recent email. “I was thinking I needed to incorporate the Statue of Liberty as well, to represent the freedom part of it.”

Inspired by Alfred Eisenstaedt’s 1945 V-J Day Life photograph capturing the moment a sailor and nurse kissed during the revelry in Times Square, Ilic thought that “having an image of two ladies—Liberty and Justice—kissing seemed right.” He positioned statues in a similar pose to the one in that famous photo, which has had its fair share of parodies and homages, and voila! Transformation.

DonCoquixote

(13,616 posts)
16. The gop sees Liberty and Justice
Fri Jun 26, 2015, 09:19 PM
Jun 2015

as at odds,

we see them as married.

And that is what defines us as LIBERALS!

DinahMoeHum

(21,809 posts)
18. Before, they mostly gazed at each other from a distance. . .
Fri Jun 26, 2015, 09:43 PM
Jun 2015

. . .in New York Harbor, anyway. Well, not quite.

This is actually Minerva, Roman goddess of war and wisdom, waving to the Statue of Liberty from Battle Hill/Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn:

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