Shepard Fairey, partnering with LGBT grassroots organization FAIR, debuted a selection of the 100 celebrity-customized Defend Equality Love Unites posters designed to raise awareness — and funds — for the fight for marriage equality.
Thursday night’s event featured the redesigned creations from the likes of Tegan Quin, Virginia Madsen, Dustin Lance Black (Milk), Matt Groening, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Renee Zellweger and many more on display at the Andaz in West Hollywood.
The “Defend Equality Love Unites” poster has become the “image of the movement,” said Fairey, who also designed President Obama’s famous “Hope” campaign poster.
“I never thought Prop. 8 would pass but when it did I just thought, ‘I have to do anything I can to say that I support marriage equality,” said Fairey, who also served as DJ for part of the evening. “I support equal rights on many fronts, and this is a very important one. I was contacted by FAIR and it was something I was going to do anyway, so I just made something and we plugged it all
in and it took off and has become a pretty pervasive image for the movement. I’m pretty happy about that.”
The artist, whose collection of 100 customized prints are currently up for bid, said having stars like Robert De Niro and Julia Roberts take part of this fundraiser and redesign his work was “pretty surreal.”
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