Palm Springs proposes AIDS memorial that looks like a butthole

Who was the model?

[quote] "The backside of the proposed memorial looks like a graphic depiction of the backside of a human being," Gene Brake said.

Lord what I wouldn't give to have been in that town hall meeting when the design was presented

In other news, Palm Springs is also planning a slavery memorial in the shape of a giant pair of lips and a watermelon.

Who created this, Marie Barone?

The sculpture on the right in OP's link is definitely a butthole. WTF?

Helen Keller R4.

Yeah, I think they can do better.

OMG R3....Too damn funny. Thanks for a much-needed burst of laughter!

Paint it pink. Then it'll look like a pussy.

[quote]Palm Springs proposes AIDS memorial that looks like a butthole

For the people complaining, the irony seems lost on them.

[quote]Who was the model?

I've been dabbling in figure modeling in my retirement.

The reporter looks like he can barely contain his laughter.

It doesn't seem big and wide enough R11.

It's dumb and ugly but inapropriate? Looks like an asshole? Huh?

There is no hope for humanity.

I think it's tremendous!

But a little small.

Paint it dark.

If you don't like it, you can always bleach it.

The front side is supposed to symbolize the infinitely diverse communities infected with HIV/AIDS and the back side is supposed to symbolize an anus, the portal through which they were infected.

It's giving me Goatse realness.

It needs to be in the shape of lipstick. Everyone knows that's how you "celebrate" AIDS.

Holes! 🤢

AND that was the Girleen reporter's final story. She's off to a bigger market! You go GURL!

I wrote the organization just to add another voice of gay outrage at this ridiculous piece of assholery.

Idiots. New public art needs to be banned at this point.

I still say after the big Marilyn statue in PS that they should have a life sized and anatomically correct Tom of Finland statue.

The part where the hole is should have a fist. It could represent determination.

It should be a prolapsed hole, to more accurately represent the population of Palm Springs

r26 If they really wanted to represent the population, they'd enclose it in a disposable diaper.

We have a similar piece in Seattle

It’s an art deco glory hole.

It’s a cruller donut.

It’s a steel belted radial!

It should be painted dusty pink.

I'm getting hot and bothered watching local reporter Jack Ingrassia discuss assholes.

It's going to become all the rage.

Let' s just hope it's not scratch and sniff.

It doesn't make me think "butthole" but it also doesn't make me think "memorial." It looks like a giant donut, bagel or Lifesaver candy.

Oh, My Gourd.

They can put this right next to it

We're shocked!

Neither a coin slot nor a balloon knot.

It's utterly asinine.

Come on, go back to the drawing board. The current proposal is inappropriate and invites disparaging criticism.

"but we MUST honor the many queer lives lost"------Dylan Mulvaney. Displaying ignorance and disrespect while peddling lipstick to celebrate World AIDS Day.

It’s a portal that leads into the butthole of John Malkovich.

The sculptor didn't see the resemblance to an anus? Was this sculpture first a drawing on paper before creating the prototype? Didn't the sculptor or the committee show the drawing to anyone or see the resemblance before displaying this thing?

Besides, could there be a little more connection to AIDS and the lives lost? The current prototype is just too weird and obscure in addition to bordering on obscene.

Senator John Kennedy (aka Grandpa Gums) of Louisiana will be creating a Senate Subcommittee to investigate and discuss prolapsed asshole sculptures in 3...2...

^^Lastly, isn't it a bit late to the party for an sole AIDS memorial now? What about a gay memorial sculpture dedicated the struggle for equality and including a symbol of the AIDS crisis within the sculpture?

There isn't a unhoused trans woman of color in this memorial! This cannot stand!

[quote]There isn't a unhoused trans woman of color in this memorial! This cannot stand!

Marsha P. Johnson laid the first brick in the foundation.

How pedantically one-dimensional!

I think they should build it so we can hear people ask, “Is that a giant anus?”

Have they tried to sell the naming rights yet?