Gay People Exist...
...and some people out there actually, kinda, sorta like us. I know, I know: it's enough to blow your mind, huh? It's also enough to get your artworks yanked from a student show at Utah's Brigham Young University.
Says the artist...
Apparently the topic of homosexuality is a bit much for the BYU audience and my part of our Fine Art Classes show was taken down today. It seems that censorship is favored over support and love. This really saddens me. I found out because a friend of mine went to the show and said that my peices had been removed and the show had been rearranged.
The show was rearranged so that no one who attended would realize that the works on display had been censored for political/religious reasons. So... shhh. Don't tell anyone.
The student artist took pictures of openly gay BYU students—openly gay and openly ballsy—and a companion portrait of a supportive friend or family member. The artist didn't label the portraits; you don't know who in each pair of portraits is the fearsome, terrible, ungodly gay, and who is the tragically deluded enabler of evil—excuse me, "the supporter."
Uncensored examples of the work.
"By their works shall ye know them." That line keeps coming back to me.
Thanks to AmericaBlog.
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And I still haven't heard anything about the Utah Legislature acceding to the wishes of the Mormon hierarchy and enacting either comprehensive gender antidiscrimination laws or a law banning divorce in the state. The first we could expect if the church actually had the respect it claims it has for the GLBT community and the second we could expect if the church actually believed that divorce was an evil thing, which it preaches but apparently can't quite practice. Holding my breath? Nope.
Watch the Mormons suddenly discover separation of church and state.
And don't forget, Utah has Chris Buttars. Who needs the Mormon leadership for discriminatory legislation?
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