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Black text on white paper. The left margin of the poster contains two identical black and white photographs of a football player about to pass a ball. Poster is comprised of paragraphs of text pertaining to Los Angeles County Supervisor Pete Schabarum, Sen. Jesse Helms, Rep. William Dannemeyer and Phyliss Schlafly's aversion to displays of male homosexuality in media and art.

Asset Metadata

Title [Fear of cock poster]

Subject AIDS (Disease) (subject), Homosexuality (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Type images

Format 1 print : lithograph, black and white (format), image/tiff (imt), posters (aat), sheet 43 x 28 cm (poster format). (format)

Language English

Source ONE Archives: Posters and Graphic Materials (subcollection), ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives (collection), University of Southern California (contributing entity)

Relation References Online Archive of California: https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c89p37jd/ (references)

Contributor Coll2018-001 ONE Archives LGBTQ Poster Collection (provenance)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email askone@usc.edu

Repository Name ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives

Repository Location 909 West Adams Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, 90007; phone (213) 821-2771

Rights The copyright status for this work is undetermined. For more information, see https://rightsstatements.org/page/UND/1.0/?language=en

Access Conditions This online display has been made possible by a generous grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources. For access to the physical items, contact ONE Archives at askone@usc.edu; or...

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/one-c4-44788

Identifier box 7 (box), P01005 (call number), one-2018001-p01005~01.tif (filename), one-c4-44788 (legacy record id)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 44788

Unique identifier UC12341876

Legacy Identifier one-2018001-p01005~01.tif

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.9 in × 25.2 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 64.0 cm at 300dpi

Transcript (If available)

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What do Los Angeles County
Supervisor Pete Schabarun,
Sen. Jesse Helms, Rep.
William Dannemeyer and
Phyliss Schlafly have in
common? Recent studies
indicate they all suffer from
a syndrome known as Fear of
Cock, which is known in the
medical community as "an
unreasonable, deeply-rooted
psychosis involving the fear
of male genitalia or display
thereof." This psychosis not
only impairs judgment and
leads to bizarre behavior,
but affects political
judgment as well. No wonder
"Distol Pete" Schabarum,
Jesse Helms, William
Dannemeyer, Phyliss Schlafly,
Bob Dornan and any number of
leading neo-fascists of the
New Right in American
politics routinely vote to
punish persons with AIDS,
enact fascistic policies that
discriminate against people
who are ill or have AIDS, or
vote to undermine the
National Endowment for the
Arts because of a few
photographs by Robert
Mapplethorpe which appeared
in a traveling art show
funded by the NEA. It was
the sight of male genitalia
in the Mapplethorpe photos
that offended these
right-wingers. No wonder
they also objected to Andres
Serrano's photograph entitled
"Diss Christ," which featured
a plastic crucifix immersed
in the artist's own urine.
Everyone knows where urine
comes from: a cock!

Cocks, cocks, and more cocks.
That's all politicians seem
to be thinking about these
days.

The recent Helms Amendment
forbids government funding of
"homoerotic" art (or depic-
tions thereof), which means:
no cocks! However, nothing
was said or implied about
"heteroerotic™ art. This
must certainly mean that the
government will fund artistic
renderings of vaginas, which
resemble a cross-section view
of a cabbage surrounded by
what appears to be Xavier
Cugat's toupee. The penis,
on the other hand, is more
solidified, with rather clear
contours. In other words,
there can be no doubt as to
whet it ia.

Using a tortured bit of
logic, 20th Century-Fox
executives ordered the design
of the alien spacecraft in
the movie Alien to be altered
because the entrances looked
like vaginas -- Catholic
audiences might be offended.
On the other hand, the design
of the alien creature itself,
whose head resembles an
enormous penis, was allowed
te conform to its original

» "design. No wonder audiences,

whose minds must be in tune
with Jesse Helms, were so
terrified by the alien: its
head looked like a huge black
cock!

A new, rather gruesome
interest has surrounded the
current controversy over
cock: Hew big is Pete
Schabarum's cock?

Most people claim to having
never actually seen Pete
Schabarum's cock. Those
closest to the shabbily-
dressed county supervisor
claim to having never seen
his cock. Throughout their
entire marriage, Mrs. Schabarum
has never seen Mr. Schabarum's
cock. Childhood friends of
the supervisor claim that
they have never seen Pete's
cock and attribute this to
his embarrassment over having
never been circumcised. In
fact, Pete Schabarum is so
embarrassed about his cock
that he rarely uses a urinal
when urinating; he prefers
the privacy of a toilet
stall. This reduces the
possibility of being laughed
at by other men. And
besides, there is always the
possibility of a rude
homosexual encounter to
consider. On some occasions,
observers have noticed that
Pete Schabarum uses a toilet
stall -- with a city hall
aide posted outside to
discourage the curious.

One person has claimed to
have seen Pete Schabarum's
cock. Sal Rodriguez*, an
underpaid janitor at City
Hall, was cleaning up a spill
in the men's room when Pete
Schabarum entered the
chamber, approached the
urinal, hitched up his
trousers, pulled out his
penis and began to urinate.
Sal, who does not suffer from
Fear of Cock, nevertheless
was repulsed: expecting to
see a normal human penis, he
witnessed, instead, what
appeared to be a large, burnt
chile relleno protruding from
the supervisor's open fly.

Fear of Cock goes on and on.
Cocks, cocks, and more cocks.
The epidemic shows no signs
of subsiding. Hardly a
laughing matter, Fear of Cock
is seriously affecting life,
as we take it for granted, in
America. The arts have been
seriously muffled and
castrated -- too many cocks!
For a while, even Playgirl
magazine stopped printing
photos of naked guys with
cocks until a perceptive
individual pointed out that
Playgqirl's audience actually
consisted of homosexual men;
the cocks reappeared, this
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worse, Fear of Cock has
allowed the AIDS epidemic to
spread rapidly across America
with no hope of AIDS wards in
major cities, has limited use
of drugs that could help AIDS
patients, and encouraged
callous proposals from
politicians to re-direct any
meager AIDS funding to be
used to clean up graffiti
instead.

But a larger issue still
remains and will continue to
overshadow trivial concerns
such as AIDS, world hunger
and drive-by shootings: How
big is Pete Schabarum's cock?

* not his real name.

Inherited Values

Title ONE Archives: Posters and Graphic Materials

Description ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives is the oldest active Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning (LGBTQ) organization in the United States and the largest repository of LGBTQ materials in the world. Founded in 1952, ONE Archives currently houses over two million archival items including periodicals, books, film, video and audio recordings, photographs, artworks, organizational records and personal papers.

A small subset of this material has been digitized and is available online.

For additional information about the Archives, please see our Website (https://one.usc.edu/).

ONE Archives’ digital collections have been made possible by generous support from the California State Library (https://www.library.ca.gov), the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) (https://www.clir.org/), The GRAMMY Foundation (https://www.grammy.com/grammy-foundation), the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) (https://www.neh.gov/), ONE Archives Foundation (https://www.onearchives.org), and a USC Libraries Dean's Challenge Grant.

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