Banner: 'I Can't Even Think Straight'

Object

Banner

Production date

1990s

Object number

2022.101

Physical Description

Beige vertical canvas banner with repeated multi-coloured text print. The canvas is frayed along each long edge and has black tape along the top and bottom edge. Each of the four corners has a metal ring punched through for hanging, the top two rings have a black and green carabiner attached.

Object history

After funding for the radical screen-printing collective the Lenthall Road workshop was withdrawn, photographer Gonul Zeki used the workshop as a commercial enterprise to print T-shirts and other merchandise for the developing lesbian and gay community, in particular for lesbians who were less catered for.

Gonul’s unique brand of irreverent humour and slogans became popular and far reaching. In 1998 The Workshop was advertised as offering the largest selection of lesbian and gay t-shirts in Europe.