Protest Against Smithsonian Censorship of David Wojnarowicz

On Sunday, December 19, 2010, hundreds of people gathered in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art to protest the Smithsonian Institution's decision to remove David Wojnarowicz's video The Fire in My Belly from the Hide/Seek Exhibit.

The protesters marched from the Metropolitan to the Cooper Hewitt Museum, a branch of the Smithsonian. The march was organized by Art+.

For more information see: http://ncac.org

Music: 3 Teens Kill 4 No Motive

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News & Politics

Tags:

• Wojanrowicz
• censorship
• Smithsonian
• Hide/Seek
• The Fire In My Belly
• NCAC
• Art+
• Ronald Feldman
• Nayland Blake
• Steve Watson
• Martha Wison
• Dread Scott
• 3 Teens Kill 4 No Motive

[Wscate]

I find it od that people are both celebrating Davids life at the same time gay men haven't learned a damn thing , bareback sex is rampant and is considered the norm which only means many great people died in vain. no one cares and cant be bothered to have safe sex bare is hot they say you don't die of aids anymore they say. Oh how misinformed and sad.

[yangyin09u]

@invadercheeze Thanks for explaining.

[invadercheeze]

@yangyin09u "A Fire In My Belly" is about David Wojnarowicz living an existence as a gay man in a time where AIDS ravaged the world and the moral majority of the era thought the gay lifestyle "unclean". The film featured a few seconds of a bunch of ants crawling on a crucifix. It was censored because of threats of budget cuts from the government to the Smithsonian.

[nicksum29]

I love censorship - it makes the censored items so sellable!

[jessehultberg]

music by 3 Teens Kill 4 No Motive

[yangyin09u]

ok but, what's David Wojnarowicz's video The Fire in My Belly about and what reason did the Smithsonian give for censoring it? I don't like gov't censorship, but this video doesn't explain.

[GWIFOT]

Do what you wanna do, but don't expect me to pay for it with my tax dollars.