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April 19, 2004

Moronic Homophobe's Vandalism Jujitsu'd Into Art

by Ron Hogan

Slate presents a slideshow highlighting an exhibit at the San Francisco Public Library, where artists took hundreds of books about gay and lesbian issues that had been mutilated with razor blades and turned them into art. And it totally doesn't surprise me that the man responsible for wrecking the books is either an idiot or has a broad set of issues in addition to homophobia:

Though the vandal had clearly relied on the library catalog to seek out books on gay issues, he evidently did not understand the search results: Among the books destroyed were works by author Gay Talese and those concerning the Enola Gay, the famous World War II warplane, as well as romance novels and books on women's health.

Comments

Perhaps this virulent homophobe is fighting similar urges in himself!

Posted by: Karen at April 19, 2004 02:57 PM
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