Poster for the Lesbian Resource Center’s 25th anniversary at Nippon Kan Theater, Seattle, WA, March 8, 1997

This two-color screen-printed poster, illustrated by Ellen Forney and printed by Girlie Press, celebrates the 25th anniversary of Seattle’s Lesbian Resource Center with a series of performances by Jewelle Gomez, Anzanga, Deb Park Satterfield, Karen Pernick, Esther “Littledove” John, Amii LeGendre & dancers, Lauri Conner, Doris L. Harris, and Mistress of Ceremonies Mary Martone. Forney’s illustration is an homage to the painting Gabrielle d’Estrées et une de ses soeurs (Gabrielle d’Estrées and one of her sisters), created in c. 1594 by an unknown French artist. 

Ellen Forney (b. 1968) is a cartoonist based in Seattle. In the 1990s, her autobiographical comic strip I Was Seven in ‘75 ran in Seattle’s alternative weekly The Stranger. Her work has appeared in various newspapers and magazines, in collaboration with comedian Margaret Cho, writer Kristin Gore, professor Camille Paglia, and Stranger sex columnist Dan Savage, among others. She has published work on mental health and political activism, curated a traveling exhibition on comics and health for the National Library of Medicine, and painted two murals in Seattle’s Capitol Hill light rail station.