The downside is not only the risk of authorities using the donations against him – by deeming it illegal fundraising – but the ever-increasing expectations of his supporters.
Many of these early paintings came bearing urgent messages about his own situation as a young gay man in a world that not only found such behaviour inadmissible, but still deemed it illegal.
The measure proposed on Thursday does not directly mention illegal immigrants, but it refers repeatedly to Title 8 in the federal code, which deems it illegal to "hire, or to recruit or refer for a fee, for employment in the United States an alien knowing the alien is an unauthorized alien".
Duncan was being prosecuted under California's Street Terrorism and Prevention Act, or STEP Act, which deems it illegal to "willfully promote" or "benefit" from criminal gang activity.
But the country hasn't always been so gay-friendly; in 1968, when dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu finally recognised that homosexuality existed, he immediately deemed it illegal.
The country has a long history of being unfriendly to gays; in 1968, when dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu finally recognized that homosexuality existed, he immediately deemed it illegal.
The ruling was aimed primarily at a Catholic newspaper, The Herald, which had been printing the word in its Malay-language stories to describe the Christian God, until the government deemed it was illegal in 2008.
Security Council Resolution 217, following on 20 November, condemned UDI as an illegitimate "usurpation of power by a racist settler minority", and called on nations neither to recognise what it deemed "this illegal authority" nor to entertain diplomatic or economic relations with it.
Ties between the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and Baghdad were strained last October when US oil giant Exxon Mobil signed a deal to develop oilfields in the north, an agreement the central government deemed illegal because it says it has control over Iraq's oil exports.
