Women's Issues Club, Scarsdale H. S., NY
- 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.
Source: A member of the club, Nadia Pervez
record no: s36