Gear Up
Item
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Title
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Gear Up
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Rights
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Copyright Serge Gay Jr.
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Type
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StillImage
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Creator
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Gay, Serge Jr.
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Date
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2020
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Description
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One of the most prominent mural additions was painted by Haitian American artist Serge Gay Jr. Entitled 'Gear Up,' the mural was painted on the wall outside neighborhood bar Moby Dick (4049 18th). The mural consists of a leather jacket on a hanger with patches, pins, and buttons along with a pair of Converse Chuck Taylors, a red bandana, black heels, and a sailor cap.
"Moby Dick is proud to act as a canvas for Serge Gay Jr.'s mural," said Cappelletti and Riffe in a joint statement. "We hope it helps to remind everyone in our community that the Castro must be supportive and inclusive of Black Lives Matter, BIPOC, and LGBTQ+ movement."
In an interview with Hoodline, Gay says the mural's inspiration was a custom trucker jacket he designed for Levi's earlier this year. Gay says Levi's sent him a jacket and he painted patches on to it.
The black leather jacket has symbols reflecting the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, Women's Rights, Voting Rights, LGBTQ+ rights and the Black Lives Matter movement. Gay says the red bandana symbolizes the AIDS ribbon in honor of the lives lost by the AIDS Pandemic.
While the jacket has traditional pins, buttons, and patches, Gay says he also added the faces of historical black heroes and heroines like Marsha P. Johnson, James Baldwin, and Malcolm X.
"The jacket symbolizes someone gearing up and getting ready for a battle and march on the streets in protest and to raise awareness," he said. "It could be anyone, it doesn't define gender."
Gay says he was excited to paint a mural in the Castro in order to provide more voices for the black LGBTQ+ and the Black Lives Matter movements. "It's one of those things lacking in the city and this district," he says.
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https://hoodline.com/2020/11/castro-art-follow/
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Format
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image/jpeg
2283 × 1515 pixels
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Language
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English
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Place
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San Francisco, California
4049 18th Street
Moby Dick (bar)
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Contributor
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Photo credit: Robby Virus
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Extent
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3.4 MB
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Identifier
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52402217668_66ea5fecec_o
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Relation
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Castro Art Project
Castro LGBTQ Cultural District (CQCD)
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Subject
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public art
mural paintings (visual works)
Baldwin, James, 1924-1987
Haring, Keith
Johnson, Marsha P., 1945-1992
Milk, Harvey
X, Malcolm, 1925-1965
Black Lives Matter movement
Black Trans Lives Matter movement
Black LGBTQ+ people
BIPOC
Feminism
LGBTQ+ activism
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Temporal Coverage
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2020
Gear Up