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	Inventory of the Records of The Body Politic & Pink Triangle Press
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Artifacts

Over the years, a large number of artifacts related to the activities of The Body Politic and Pink Triangle Press were handed over to the Archives. To my knowledge these have not been catalogued, but comprise several different physical categories.

The most common are: button and badges; banners used in various marches and celebrations; and T-shirts -- which doubled as promotional material. There are also a number of rubber stamps, some with TBP's addresses and logos.

Among those stamps should be one that says "P.C." and another "P.I." -- for "Politically Correct" and "Incorrect." These date from the late 1970s, and were used only in irony: I recall a TBP party where one or the other was stamped on guests' hands as they arrived.

Also here is a small rubber dinosaur, I think given to Gerald Hannon in the mid-1980s -- when TBP's by-then divergent generations were known in-house as "mammals" and "dinosaurs."

Missing in 1988 (though I later discovered that I have it myself) is a collective- meeting mascot of the late 1970s: a tiny, wind- up robot which, when knocked down, flails around for a bit and then, slowly, stands itself back up.

I have not recorded accession numbers for artifacts. All (including many from other people and organizations) are kept together in one location at the Archives, from which volunteer workers there can retrieve items anyone wants to see.