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Black Lesbian and Gay Pride
a success despite rain
New N EA head outed
The outing campaign against Anne Imelda
Radice, the conservative new head of the increas­
ingly anti-gay National Endowment for the Arts,
is gaining steam. Queer Nation, D.C. Chapter,
started it May 15, saying that Radice’s lesbianism
“is widespread knowledge.” The Advocate re­
ferred to Radice as George Bush’s new doormat
homosexual,” and former Human Rights Cam­
paign Fund Chair Vivian Shapiro called her, “les­
bian from hell.”
The New York Post, reporting on Radice’s
outing, speculated that President Bush may have
appointed the conservative Radice because of her
lesbianism. It s like having a black man gut the
civil-rights agency,” The Post quoted Gay and
Lesbian Victory Fund Executive Director Will­
iam Wayboum saying.
Former NEA Chair John Frohnmayer resigned
this year after ultra-right columnist Pat Buchanan
attacked President Bush over NEA funding of
“obscene” gay art. Radice promised Congress in
May that she will not fund “difficult subject
matter [where] the sexual nature is...the first thing
you see or the overwhelming thing you experi­
ence,” and added that she would have nixed
funding for the display of Robert Mapplethorpe
photographs that launched the whole NEA and
gay funding controversy.
Jim Hunger