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Michael Feinstein on Kennedy Center’s ‘Government-Sanctioned’ Cancellations
He was invited to perform at a World Pride performance at the Kennedy Center before the show was canceled.
After several World Pride performances were canceled at the Kennedy Center, Great American Songbook Foundation’s founder, Michael Feinstein, wrote an essay titled “Fear of Queer?” criticizing Trump’s attack on the arts. “These recent Kennedy Center losses may well be defined in the years ahead, as the 21st century government-sanctioned censorship and silencing of creativity, regardless of value, based strictly on sexual orientation.” Indeed, the latest attempts to strip PBS and NPR of critical funds, highlight the fact that any government-supported access to the arts is no longer safe since the current administration has banned, cancelled or forbidden, in an effort to erase any concert or programs at the Kennedy Center, that in any way allows art to acknowledge of existence of homosexuality (and these ‘cancellations’ do not acknowledge the disturbing, racist, misogynistic and other bigoted forms of censorship, which I find equally distressing, infuriating and indeed, despicable).”
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