Women's Issues Club, Scarsdale H. S., NY

• Date: 1985-present

• Location: USA

• Grounds for Censorship: sexual/gender orientation

• Medium category: Literature

• Artist/Author/Producer: Women's Issues Club

• Confronting Bodies: Initiator: W.I.C Opposition: Michael McDermott

• Dates of action: Around September 1993

• Location: Scarsdale High School, Scarsdale, NY, USA

Description of the Art Work

Collection of posters, signs, and literature gathered from the Gay and Lesbian March on Washington was to be displayed for National Coming Out Day in Scarsdale High School, and posters from the Women's Issues Club describing the event were to be publicly displayed throughout the school.

Description of incident

Vice Principal Michael McDermott rejected the posters, on the grounds that they were inappropriate and would be "misunderstood." Without his approval, the posters and signs could not be distributed or displayed.

Results of incident

No appeal to the Principal or Board of Education was sought, to my knowledge. The existing posters and signs were removed from a display case in a little-traversed section of a hallway in the high school.

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