Panel Discussion: “The Fire Still Burns: Religion and Censorship in LGBTQ Art”

A panel discussion, “The Fire Still Burns: Religion and Censorship in LGBTQ Art,” organized by Dr. Christine Filippone, art and design professor, will take place on November 9, at 7:30 p.m., in Steinman Hall, The Ware Center, Millersville University Lancaster.

Open to students, faculty and staff, as well as the Millersville and Lancaster communities, the panel will focus on the content and subsequent censorship of the first ever major U.S. museum exhibition examining expressions of LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer) sexual identity and desire titled, “Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture,” held at the National Portrait Gallery in fall 2010.

The panel will include Dr. Jonathan D. Katz, co-curator of the exhibition, and law professor Nancy J. Knauer, author of the book Gay and Lesbian Elders: History, Law, and Identity Politics in the U.S.

The panel was organized to provide context for a bus trip for students to the Brooklyn Museum on December 2, to see “Hide/Seek” (with Wojnarowicz’s video). The panel is supported by the following from Millersville University: Department of Art and Design, Academic and Cultural Enrichment Funds, the Office of Social Equity and Diversity, Ganser Library, the Noonan Endowment Fund and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. It is also supported by the Center for Liberal Arts & Society and the Phillips Museum of Art, both at Franklin & Marshall College.