The State - News from Aug. 25, 1987
Vandals spray-painted the word “AIDS” on Stanford University’s sculpture of two gay couples. The work by artist George Segal, entitled “Gay Liberation,” was placed there three years ago as a monument to the gay riots in New York that sparked the gay movement in 1969. The sculpture already had been restored after someone battered it with a hammer. Art history professor Albert Elsen said the statue was in need of a scrubbing anyway.
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