Word: homoeroticism
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The defender of "free speech," Rep. Henry Hyde, who sponsored legislation which would outlaw codes against hate speech at private universities, is the same right-winger who has worked for legislation to ban flag-burning, to deny federal funding for "homoerotic art," and to bar abortion counseling in federally funded...
Haynes dines on controversy. His previous picture was the rough, wickedly funny Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, a sort of Valley of the Dolls (but with real dolls) that was suppressed by the Carpenter family. Poison is a more somber affair. The shock comes not from any graphic sex, for...
He said the two groups had been highly disturbed by recent efforts to cut grants for controversial projects funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, particularly works of art that deal with homoerotic themes.
In any case, no one who applies for NEA grants plans to be obscene. The late Robert Mapplethorpe--whose homoerotic photographs put Helms on the warpath in the first place--surely did not consider his pictures obscene, or gross, or even mildly icky.
The Congressional regulations came in the wake of a national controversy last summer over NEA funding of exhibitions by artists such as the late Robert Mapplethorpe, whose work includes homoerotic photographs.