Have you heard about the David Wojnarowicz video that was yanked from a show
at the National Portrait Gallery this week?  Please come to the organizing
meeting this Sunday Dec. 5, 3pm…details below.

STOP THE CENSORSHIP!

When he died in 1992, David Wojnarowicz, artist and writer with AIDS, left a
body of work about the disease that remains unrivaled for its power and
beauty.   On December 1, 2010 the Smithsonian Institution’s National
Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC celebrated World AIDS Day by capitulating
to the demands of right-wing politicians and an anti-gay  religions group
and removing David’s volcanic video rant, A Fire in My Belly, from an
important exhibition about art and sexual difference, Hide/Seek.

Join us on Sunday, December 5 at 3:00pm at the location below to plan a
response to the Smithsonian’s cowardly act of self-censorship, a kick in the
teeth to an important, eloquent artist.

ORGANIZING MEETING
Time:   3:00pm
Date:       Sunday, December 5, 2010
Location:   PARTICIPANT INC (ground floor art space)
           253 East Houston St.
           between Norfolk  and Suffolk
By subway - F train to Second Ave.  Exit at First Ave.,
continue east along Houston for one and a half blocks.

MORE INFORMATION, to join the mailing list
E-mail:  hunterr5930@yahoo.com
Phone:  (212) 966-1091

Here are links to Washington Post coverage:

National Portrait Gallery bows to censors, withdraws Wojnarowicz video on
gay love
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2010/11/30/VI201011300689
8.html?sid=ST2010110502641

Ant-covered Jesus video removed from Smithsonian after Catholic League
complains
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/30/AR2010113004
647.html