Posted on 08/26/2005 3:21:22 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
MILWAUKEE, WI (AP) - The Milwaukee Gay Arts Center has filed a claim against the city, contending it committed a civil rights violation by shutting down performances of a touring musical revue.
An ordinance requiring a city theater license was selectively enforced against the center last week for a presentation of "Naked Boys Singing" because it is a gay organization, according to the claim filed Tuesday by attorney Richard Hart on behalf of the group.
The claim said such a permit was never required for other productions in the past and that numerous other venues typically present theater performances without one.
It contends that, even though the production contains nudity, that was no excuse for the city to shut it down Thursday.
The presentation was halted Thursday when officers from the Milwaukee Police Department's Vice Control Division arrived and said the center had failed to obtain a city theater license, required if a production charges to see a performance.
Anne E. Schwartz, a department spokeswoman, said vice officers handled the case because of the musical's title.
A city ordinance prohibits frontal nudity but exempts theater and other art performances from the ban as long as they have "serious artistic merit" and the predominant nature of the business is not intended to "provide sexual gratification."
The claim filed Tuesday also states that, as a charitable organization, the center is exempt from the theater permit requirement. It states that the center promotes and produces theater presentations that benefit gay-related groups and that proceeds were designated for various AIDS research groups and theater groups.
The claim seeks $500,000 in punitive damages, $100,000 for anticipated legal fees, $27,720 for loss of ticket revenue, $3,000 for loss of advertisement revenue, $1,700 for the cost of rights for the play and $2,000 for legal fees to date.
The center applied for the theater permit, but the request must be considered by the Common Council, which is on break until Sept. 7.
Lt. John Kaltenbrun of the Milwaukee Police Department Vice Division likened the situation to a new bar opening its doors while its tavern license has yet to be approved and said it had absolutely nothing to do with the nudity or content of the show.
This country has gone out of its PC-crazed mind.
Homosexual Agenda Ping.
More evidence that the "gay" rights movement will not be happy (actually, those promoting it will never be happy no matter what) until they rule us all.
Tolerance is not what they want. Dominance is, and those of us who oppose the "gay" agenda will lose freedom of expression, association, religion and who knows what else. With the added insult that our tax money is paying for a lot of this.
Note the chicken**** cop saying that it isn't because of the nudity or content of the show... It's a world gone mad where no one can legitimately complain that naked homosexuals on stage should not be allowed because of the content. Can only be some technical glitch. It's time to resurrect the "C" word - censorship.
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He even got the cops to give one of his victims back to him so he could finish the job.
These people are more than sick, they are suicidal!
I'm confused. Are you saying Dahmer was homosexual, or that he was straight and only murdering (dismembering and eating...) homosexuals?
I didn't follow that case too closely. Too gross for me. Besides, it had a Happy Ending for the taxpayers of Wisconsin after he was in prison. ;)
Milwaukee is pretty tolerant. I was surprised to see the number of gay bars in Walker's Point in a recent drive through the area.
Richard Hart on behalf of the group. - Hart, Dick?
Refering to male homosexuals as "gay" is stupid.
I know a ton of homosexuals and most of them are confused and depressed because of their multiple, promiscuous relationsips.
Yes, I do know a couple of couples that are stable and well adjusted. They are the exception.
Anyone that says the "gay lifestyle" is healthy is a nut.
Yah sure you betcha, homosexuals are just the same as normal people, don't cha know? Yah, they're not fixated by their perversion, hey?
Were you confused on this?
Homos almost always end up alone, sad, depressed, alcoholic, and bitter.
That's my observation.
Don't be a jerk. I was just asking because I hadn't followed the murder. Geeze.
Ah...Now I've pieced it together! I wasn't up on Dahmer's trial because it fell while I was activated for Operation Desert Storm from '90-'92. He was killed in prison in '91 I believe?
So, see? I have a legitimate reason for not knowing he was a homosexual. But you were still being rude to me for no apparent reason. ;)
It's quite logical to think that ANYONE who mentions Dahmer knows something about him.
Besides, we have this crowd who want to keep homosexuality "pure", so they deny that Dahmer was a homosexual. They usually begin their attack with a question.
Why are we adding keywords like "AIDSROCKS"? That's just twisted.
They don't want us to tolerate them. They want acceptance. If that has to be forced out of us, they are fine with that.
BINGO---You nailed it!!!!!
The second law of homosexuality:
To the mentally healthy (heterosexual), sex is something you do
To the mentally diseased ('homosexual'), sex is everything you are
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