The cancellation comes only a month after House of Representatives cut $17,142 from USC Upstate’s budget for assigning freshmen to read a book of essays on coming out in the South.
Leah Hendrix's satircal play "How To Become A Lesbian In 10 Days Or Less" has been canceled at the University Of South Carolina Upstate's LGBT symposium following complaints from several South Carolina lawmakers.
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South Carolina state Sen. Mike Fair condemned the university for its upcoming symposium during an interview on Monday.
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"It's just not normal and then you glorify, or it seems to me, that the promotion at USC Upstate is a glorification of same-sex orientation,” Fair said of the planned performance. Republican State Sen. Kevin Bryant called the university's programming a promotion of "perversion". "If they've got extra money sitting around to promote perversion, obviously they've got more money than they really need," he said Friday.
The cancellation comes only a month after House of Representatives cut $17,142 from USC Upstate’s budget for assigning freshmen to read a book of essays on coming out in the South.
The two-day (April 10-11) "Bodies of Knowledge Symposium and Conference" is set to feature several speakers and performers "focusing on various ways of being LGBTQ."
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The event will feature lectures by Dr. David Halperin (author of How to Be Gay and co-founder of GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies) and Dr. Bernadette Barton (author of Pray the Gay Away: The Extraordinary Lives of Bible Belt Gays).
How To Be A Lesbian in 10 Days or Less is a hilarious coming out story for queers and non-queers alike. Motivational speaker and expert lesbian Butchy McDyke deftly guides her captive audience in an exploration of self-discovery and first love, coming out, lesbian sex, queer politics, and a really important Reba McEntire song as they learn to confidently shout, "I'm a big 'ol dyke!" Writer and performer Leigh Hendrix weaves a story that is one part instructional seminar, one part personal story, and one part wacky performance art. At turns funny and poignant, silly and earnest, [the show] is the perfect guide to gay for budding lesbians, no matter their sexual orientation!
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