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Please Be Safe

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Meet the safety pin, 1980s

An extension of the Northwest AIDS Foundation “Please Be Safe” campaign was the “Safety Pin,” a symbol that the wearer believed in and practiced safer sex. Efforts like this helped spread information about AIDS and created new community norms that stressed prevention and safety.

  • Publisher(s):
    Northwest AIDS Foundation
  • Type:
    Poster
Color photograph of a safety pin on a red sweater. The pin has a yellow roadside on it.
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    MEET THE SAFETY PIN.

    Your chance to tell the world that you follow the new rules of the road. Free and available here. Insist on safer sex. You’ll find yourself in great company.

    PLEASE BE SAFE.
    THE NORTHWEST AIDS FOUNDATION

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