Students To Sue Over Banned Gay Art

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Tensions over a Brooklyn College art show that parks officials deemed too racy for a public war memorial have escalated as the school dismantled the exhibit and a lawyer for the artists said they planned to sue the city on First Amendment grounds.

The exhibit, which included representations of male genitalia, watercolor paintings of gay sex and a live rat, was housed in the city-owned Brooklyn War Memorial until the Department of Parks & Recreation shut it down the day after it opened last week. (story)

The World War II memorial is used as gallery space by the college, which is part of the City University of New York system. The parks department said an agreement with the school stipulated that art exhibits at the memorial be "appropriate for families."

Brooklyn College moved the artwork on Monday and planned to keep it on campus until it could be installed in retail space donated by a real estate developer, school spokeswoman Colleen Roche said in an e-mail.