Word: cincinnati
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cincinnati's moral crusaders finally gone too far? Many residents seemed to think so when a grand jury last week indicted the director of the city's Contemporary Arts Center on charges of criminal obscenity for displaying the sexually charged photographs of the late Robert Mapplethorpe. While protesters chanted, "Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil!," police barged into the gallery, herded out 1,400 visitors, served papers and collected evidence. "It was a sad day for the city and for the arts," says gallery director Dennis Barrie, who could be sentenced to up to a year in jail if he is convicted...
...Mapplethorpe show became notorious last year after a protest from North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms forced Washington's Corcoran Gallery of Art to cancel it. Well in advance of its April 7 opening in Cincinnati, Citizens for Community Values, a powerful and well-funded 16,000-member organization, sponsored full-page ads in local papers and a massive letter-writing campaign. "We think the exhibit is irresponsible, and we think ((the arts center)) should be accountable," says Monty Lobb Jr., president of Citizens for Community Values. "The gallery is open to the public; it's on public land and receives...
Until those demonstrations, there had been little protest against the hard- shell moral conservatism that has dominated Cincinnati for 30 years. The Queen City was a spawning ground for the national antiabortion movement and is the headquarters for the National Coalition Against Pornography. It has managed to purge from its streets the sex shops, peep shows, X-rated films and nude-dancing clubs that mar many major cities. Cincinnati has banned or otherwise hounded out of town the musical Oh! Calcutta! and such films as Vixen, Last Tango in Paris and The Last Temptation of Christ...