GRITtv: The F Word: Banning Art, Forgetting the Artists

This Wednesday was World AIDS day, but instead of honoring the lives lost to the disease, Republicans are attacking art that reflects on it. They're targeting a show at the National Portrait Gallery called Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture. The gallery has pulled a video by David Wojnarowicz called "Fire In My Belly." John Boehner and the Catholic League complained that the video's use of Catholic imagery was an attack on their religion. Wojnarowicz died of AIDS-related complications in 1992, but I asked his old friend Philip Yenawine for some thoughts. Distributed by Tubemogul.