Prop Cake
There is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.
— Alice Paul
We created our third broadside in response to the 2008 passage of Proposition 8, which made same-sex marriage illegal in the state of California (the law has since been ruled unconstitutional). Early 20th-century suffragist Alice Paul’s quote made the issue seem like, well, a piece of cake—so our idea was born. The colorful, multi-tiered wedding cake design is inspired by the residential architecture of San Francisco—epicenter of California’s marriage equality debate and home to a thriving LGBT community.
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Year created
2009
At issue
Marriage equality
Edition size
108 prints
Significance of edition number
The “8” in the number represents Proposition 8