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A Selective Timeline of Censorship in the U.S.A.
1994 NEA is attacked for its funding of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, which hosts a performance by HIV positive artist Ron Athey, who uses ritual piercing and scarification to address issues relevant to AIDS, body image, and homophobia. At one point in his performance, Athey pricks a pattern on the back of an assistant, blots the pattern with a paper towel, and hangs it up to view. Comic ?zine creator Michael Diana is found guilty on obscenity charges in Pinellas County, Fl and ordered not to create any further ?obscene? drawings even in the privacy of his own home. The owner, manager and clerk of The Pink Pyramid, a small Cincinnati gay and lesbian bookstore, are arrested for ?pandering obscenity? for renting Pier Paolo Pasolini?s film Salo.
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