View source for Angels in America (play)

====Date: [[:Category:1995|1995]]====

====Region: [[:Category:North America|North America]]====

====Subject: [[:Category:Sexual/Gender Orientation|Sexual/Gender Orientation]], [[:Category:Nudity|Nudity]], [[:Category:Religion|Religion]]====

====Medium: [[:Category:Performance Art|Performance Art]], [[:Category:Theater|Theater]]====
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'''Artist:''' Kushner, Tony.

'''Confronting Bodies:'''Religious Fundamentalists

'''Dates of Action:'''  1995

'''Location:''' Charlotte, North Carolina and other places world wide.

'''Description of Artwork:''' This play depicts scenes from American life and has several gay charecters in it--one of whom is also a black nurse. It contains subject matter pertaining to HIV. <P>

'''The Incident:''' The New York based  touring company doing this Pulitzer Prize winning play was engaged by a Charlotte  theatre group to perform this play.  The touring company arrived and was ready to perform the play which had previously been advertized in an area covering three states.  Religious fundamentalists protested this and got Senator Jesse Helms involved to pressure the Auditorium to cancel the play .  Some of the protesters were members of the American Family Association, Bob Jones University and One Million Moms (and Dads) which is part of the American Family Association.  <P>

'''Results of Incident:''' The play was canceled and has never been performed in Western North Carolina or South Carolina since and many theatrical producers will not take on this project in the Carolinas because of the problems which occurred in Charlotte when asked by this reporter. <P>

'''Source:''' The Chalotte Observer Newspaper; Chalotte, N.C.
The Greenville News
Greenville, SC
The Associated Press

====Date: [[:Category:2011|2011]]====

====Region: [[:Category:North America|North America]]====

====Subject: [[:Category:Sexual/Gender Orientation|Sexual/Gender Orientation]], [[:Category:Nudity|Nudity]], [[:Category:Religion|Religion]]====

====Medium: [[:Category:Performance Art|Performance Art]], [[:Category:Theater|Theater]]====
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'''Confronting Bodies:'''Fremont School Board

'''Dates of Action:'''  March 2011

'''Location:''' Fremont, California

'''The Incident:''' English teacher Teri Hu requested that the play be used in her school as secondary material for her Advanced Placement class. In spite of receiving a unanimous recommendation by the Textbook Advisory Committee, the school board rejected the work due to concerns of "divisiveness" and potential offense to "people of faith." <P>

'''Results of Incident:''' In spite of a letter from NCAC, the play remained rejected. <P>

'''Source:''' http://www.mercurynews.com/education/ci_21022870/fremont-school-board-votes-down-controversial-book-again?source=most_viewed


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[[Category:North America]]
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[[Category:Charlotte]]
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[[Category:Religion]]
[[Category:Performance Art]]
[[Category:Theatre]]
[[Category:Kushner, Tony.]]

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