Gay and Lesbian Public Access Show in Denver
- Artist/Author/Producer: Anthony Palange
- Confronting Bodies: Denver Community Television
- Dates of action: 8/1/94
- Location: Denver, Colorado
- Description of the Art Work
- "G/L Magazine," a gay news-and-entertainment show, produced for public
access television.
- Description of incident
- Denver Community Television (DCTV) refused to air two episodes of
Anthony Palange's "G/L Magazine," asserting that they were "obscene." Palange
then filed suit with the aid of the ACLU in Denver. Under federal cable
television laws, public access channels are public forums, and neither a
city nor an agency to which a city delegates the function of
administering public access TV may censor the content of programs. In
the case of "G/L Magazine" there had never been any judicial
determination that the programs met the legal standard for obscenity.
The episodes did not even contain nudity.
- Results of incident
- In early November 1993, "G/L Magazine" resumed broadcasting.
Source: "ACLU Arts Censorship Project Newsletter", Winter 1994
