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Welcome to Query.

Hey Query Rose, this week's guest is Paul Hartfleet.

He is an artist and his work in the Pansy Project inspired the crap out of me.

I was so excited to be able to finally get on a chance to talk to this person.

Hey, also, my stand-up special rape jokes was a year old this week, last week, the week I'm recording this.

And so I just want to say thank you all who watched it and donated, and if you haven't had a chance yet,

we almost hit $100,000 and it's still available for free on my website, cameraNusPosito.com, and you can donate.

So thank you and enjoy the episode.

I've been feeling wrong, but I'm still in my toilet, I know, I know, I know it's careless.

I always have folks introduce themselves. Would you introduce yourself?

I will. My name is Paul Hartfleet, and I'm an artist.

I plant pansies at the site of homophobic K-Crime and take a photograph and put it on my website, thepansyproject.com.

I also have written a book called Pansyboy, which I wrote and illustrated, which introduces the notion to children.

Introduce the notion, what notion? Introduce the notion of the pansyproject.

I love this. I love this so much. I can't remember how my producer got information about you,

but however it was, I was just like, yes, I would love to talk to this person.

This is such a cool idea. So when did you start doing this?

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