Butch recognition panel from Alison Bechdels’ Fun Home.
The art of illustrator Julio Salgado has become synonymous with the immigrant rights youth movement, that embraced by U.S.-raised young people who were brought here illegally or stayed on with expired visas after their parents brought them to the U.S. as children.
His bright, chunky characters, sometimes depicted in graduate cap-and-gown attire, are found on posters and t-shirts advocating for the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act, proposed federal legislation that would grant conditional legal status to young people who arrived before age 16 of they go to college or join the military. Last year Salgado created “Liberty for All,” an online political comic strip about a young college graduate named Libertad, or Liberty, who can’t find work beyond menial jobs.
Here is Salgado’s take on what it’s like to come out twice – or not
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