Proud that this happened on my birthday… 23 years too early

On June 3, 1968, a galvanizing incident occurred in the art world involving the radical lesbian feminist Valerie Solanas (1936-1988), founder of SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men) and author of the SCUM Manifesto.Solanas tried to assassinate gay Pop artist Andy Warhol because she believed he had stolen her ideas. While Solanas was certainly mentally disturbed, her claim of stolen authorship and subsequent action, however radical, was keenly understood by women artists whose own groundbreaking works had frequently been overlooked while their male, sometimes gay, counterparts found fame and acceptance.