Tell the Smithsonian to Stop Censoring Gay Artists Petition: Signature List Feed http://gopetition.com/signatures/tell-the-smithsonian-to-stop-censoring-gay-artists.html Online petition signatures en-us Sun, 5 Apr 2026 03:14 UTC GoPetition RSS Feed Generator Copyright 2026 GoPetition Ms Anonymous [Signature #465] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/24252322?utm_medium=rss Tue, 26 Apr 2022 08:53:58 UTC 24252322 Mr Anonymous [Signature #464] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19925014?utm_medium=rss I feel strongly about this topic.

]]> Tue, 19 Apr 2016 02:18:39 UTC 19925014 Ms Breanna Odle [Signature #463] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/18758749?utm_medium=rss Tue, 14 Apr 2015 08:50:09 UTC 18758749 Anonymous [Signature #462] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/18545764?utm_medium=rss Sun, 15 Feb 2015 11:46:01 UTC 18545764 Ms Rachel Meiring [Signature #461] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/18241679?utm_medium=rss "We are not content with negative obedience, nor even with the most abject submission. When finally you surrender to us, it must be of your own free will. We do not destroy the heretic because he resists us; so long as he resists us we never destroy him. We convert him, we capture his inner mind, we reshape him. We burn all evil and all illusion out of him; we bring him over to our side, not in appearance, but genuinely, heart and soul. We make him one of ourselves before we kill him. It is intolerable to us that an erroneous thought should exist anywhere in the world, however secret and powerless it may be. Even in the instance of death we cannot permit any deviation . . . we make the brain perfect before we blow it out." George Orwell, 1984

Set the Arts Free.

]]> Fri, 5 Dec 2014 01:53:04 UTC 18241679 John Noack [Signature #460] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/18134824?utm_medium=rss Thu, 13 Nov 2014 07:51:43 UTC 18134824 Me Felipe Ferro [Signature #459] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/18074459?utm_medium=rss Tue, 28 Oct 2014 07:56:35 UTC 18074459 Elle Anderson [Signature #458] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/18069248?utm_medium=rss Sun, 26 Oct 2014 05:33:12 UTC 18069248 Courtney Zyla [Signature #457] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/17274329?utm_medium=rss It's 2014, it's to time to realize that not everyone is the same and you need to be more tolerant. I was planning on visiting The Smithsonian at some point but because of this censorship I won't.

]]> Sun, 11 May 2014 03:35:42 UTC 17274329 Ms Christina Stouwie [Signature #456] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/16373728?utm_medium=rss Sun, 8 Dec 2013 05:12:21 UTC 16373728 David Branam [Signature #455] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/15895702?utm_medium=rss life imitates art.

]]> Sat, 21 Sep 2013 06:01:48 UTC 15895702 Brian Seidenglanz [Signature #454] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/15764757?utm_medium=rss Sun, 8 Sep 2013 08:29:28 UTC 15764757 debbie levin [Signature #453] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/15353473?utm_medium=rss Tue, 4 Jun 2013 04:01:25 UTC 15353473 Jordan Herdt [Signature #452] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/15266830?utm_medium=rss Sat, 18 May 2013 12:30:52 UTC 15266830 Anonymous [Signature #451] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/15084872?utm_medium=rss Wed, 17 Apr 2013 10:58:54 UTC 15084872 Miss Jessica Archer [Signature #450] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/14912513?utm_medium=rss Mon, 18 Mar 2013 09:23:06 UTC 14912513 Anonymous [Signature #449] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/14730379?utm_medium=rss Wed, 20 Feb 2013 05:35:09 UTC 14730379 Ms Lynn Thomas [Signature #448] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/14728000?utm_medium=rss Tue, 19 Feb 2013 06:14:02 UTC 14728000 Kerri Anne Davidson [Signature #447] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/14727900?utm_medium=rss Tue, 19 Feb 2013 05:43:18 UTC 14727900 Mrs Sharon Leger [Signature #446] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/14727058?utm_medium=rss Tue, 19 Feb 2013 02:43:50 UTC 14727058 Jennifer Strong [Signature #445] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/14726502?utm_medium=rss Tue, 19 Feb 2013 12:44:19 UTC 14726502 Mr Ric Lafleur [Signature #444] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/14726232?utm_medium=rss Come on, this isnt 1940, its 2013. Time to wake up, get your heads out of your asses!

]]> Tue, 19 Feb 2013 11:48:26 UTC 14726232 Jennifer Levesque [Signature #443] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/14726140?utm_medium=rss Tue, 19 Feb 2013 11:33:01 UTC 14726140 Max Furr [Signature #442] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/14655549?utm_medium=rss Thu, 7 Feb 2013 06:20:06 UTC 14655549 Mr. David Branam [Signature #441] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/13798493?utm_medium=rss Art should be free! This is America! Let us speak!

]]> Thu, 20 Sep 2012 10:32:57 UTC 13798493 Ms Natalie Snyder [Signature #440] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/13574484?utm_medium=rss Mon, 20 Aug 2012 01:32:23 UTC 13574484 anna gensler [Signature #439] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/13311920?utm_medium=rss Thu, 12 Jul 2012 01:40:44 UTC 13311920 Ms krystal klassen [Signature #438] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/12791402?utm_medium=rss censorship in art is just out of hand, im nor for or aginst gay right i am here for the arts.

]]> Mon, 14 May 2012 11:14:02 UTC 12791402 Ms Lucie Elledge [Signature #437] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/12683488?utm_medium=rss Unban the arts!

]]> Fri, 4 May 2012 04:17:42 UTC 12683488 Ms Karina Garcia [Signature #436] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/12509387?utm_medium=rss Fri, 6 Apr 2012 06:29:42 UTC 12509387 Mr Loren Miller [Signature #435] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/12502936?utm_medium=rss Thu, 5 Apr 2012 08:44:48 UTC 12502936 Lindsey Puccio [Signature #434] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/12366928?utm_medium=rss Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:44:41 UTC 12366928 Ms Rochelle Villaflor [Signature #433] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/12205149?utm_medium=rss Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:46:57 UTC 12205149 Kelly Sullivan [Signature #432] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/12175363?utm_medium=rss Thu, 9 Feb 2012 04:21:36 UTC 12175363 Jane Connelly [Signature #431] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/12166045?utm_medium=rss Wed, 8 Feb 2012 08:49:19 UTC 12166045 ms Nina Jurić [Signature #430] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/12103063?utm_medium=rss Sat, 28 Jan 2012 09:17:10 UTC 12103063 Ms Laura Talbot [Signature #429] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11824993?utm_medium=rss Fri, 9 Dec 2011 10:03:12 UTC 11824993 Mrs Stephanie Olson [Signature #428] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11764030?utm_medium=rss Wed, 30 Nov 2011 08:02:03 UTC 11764030 y Erin Bailey [Signature #427] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11745672?utm_medium=rss Mon, 28 Nov 2011 02:14:35 UTC 11745672 Harrison Nuttall [Signature #426] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11425203?utm_medium=rss Mon, 31 Oct 2011 01:12:07 UTC 11425203 Mrs. Lindy Brooks [Signature #425] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11415556?utm_medium=rss Being apart of the art world, going to museums, all of that means that you need to be open. and understand that you will most likely see something you don't like. But that is art. And just like books or music, if you don't like it, move on and don't see that artists work.

]]> Fri, 28 Oct 2011 03:10:49 UTC 11415556 Ms Elshadai Zenaye [Signature #424] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11400562?utm_medium=rss Silence still equals death.

]]> Tue, 25 Oct 2011 05:50:54 UTC 11400562 Robin McDonald [Signature #423] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11363988?utm_medium=rss Thu, 20 Oct 2011 08:01:55 UTC 11363988 Mr Ake Lindberg [Signature #422] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11149645?utm_medium=rss I am so disappointed, I thougt this kind of repression was history in the art world....

]]> Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:10:46 UTC 11149645 Anonymous [Signature #421] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10679398?utm_medium=rss Tue, 14 Jun 2011 11:13:11 UTC 10679398 Ms Katarina Blanton [Signature #420] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10589164?utm_medium=rss Tue, 31 May 2011 02:25:14 UTC 10589164 Ms. Noli Vega [Signature #419] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10553798?utm_medium=rss Thu, 26 May 2011 04:20:02 UTC 10553798 Richard Wallick [Signature #418] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10550376?utm_medium=rss I fail to see the difference in the censorship of an ant covered Christ and a picture of the prophet Mohammed. Kowtowing to the "Christian" right in issues such as this support is anathema to the Smithsonian's stated vision and values.

]]> Thu, 26 May 2011 08:53:21 UTC 10550376 Ms. Addison Rankin [Signature #417] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10474226?utm_medium=rss Tue, 17 May 2011 01:55:48 UTC 10474226 Anna Conley [Signature #416] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10285810?utm_medium=rss Wed, 20 Apr 2011 07:40:25 UTC 10285810 Samantha Grimm [Signature #415] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10058600?utm_medium=rss ART IS FOR EVERYONE ... NOT LIMITED TO SOMEONE

]]> Wed, 23 Mar 2011 05:53:12 UTC 10058600 Miss Rebecca Jacobs [Signature #414] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10003536?utm_medium=rss Wed, 16 Mar 2011 01:03:12 UTC 10003536 charlotte carney [Signature #413] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9940446?utm_medium=rss Thu, 10 Mar 2011 05:02:07 UTC 9940446 Samantha Grimm [Signature #412] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9921163?utm_medium=rss First Amendment Bitches!!!

]]> Wed, 9 Mar 2011 08:45:20 UTC 9921163 Mr Brian George [Signature #411] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9859158?utm_medium=rss Censorship has no place in America.

]]> Sun, 6 Mar 2011 06:21:42 UTC 9859158 Logan Deese [Signature #410] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9771386?utm_medium=rss If you censor a piece of work because the artist was gay and because Christians were offended, then you are opening a door to have virtually every piece be censored because of its 'offensiveness' to others. Art is a means of expression, the very soul of a person. Who gives you the right to take that expression away? Reverse the censorship. This is more than about how much money you will lose. You're hindering equal human rights.

]]> Fri, 25 Feb 2011 10:24:02 UTC 9771386 Griffin Cassra [Signature #409] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9765939?utm_medium=rss Thu, 24 Feb 2011 06:30:24 UTC 9765939 Ms. Anonymous [Signature #408] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9724998?utm_medium=rss Sun, 20 Feb 2011 10:31:40 UTC 9724998 Casey Haumesser [Signature #407] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9697139?utm_medium=rss Everyone, and everything should and will be equal.

]]> Thu, 17 Feb 2011 06:12:26 UTC 9697139 Ms Rez Guthrie [Signature #406] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9632399?utm_medium=rss Sun, 13 Feb 2011 12:23:23 UTC 9632399 Kate Hampton [Signature #405] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9615990?utm_medium=rss Fri, 11 Feb 2011 06:15:22 UTC 9615990 Ms Emma Rozumenko [Signature #404] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9605896?utm_medium=rss It is sad that in this "free" country, artwork is being hidden from the public because it is seen as inappropriate. This is a complete outrage and goes against the first amendment. I hope the Smithsonian Institution will change their mind about censoring the peoples artwork.

]]> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 10:31:48 UTC 9605896 Miss Cristina Pedreira [Signature #403] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9564449?utm_medium=rss Tue, 8 Feb 2011 03:15:17 UTC 9564449 Chelsea Howell [Signature #402] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9540832?utm_medium=rss Sun, 6 Feb 2011 10:10:00 UTC 9540832 Mr Mark Gierok [Signature #401] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9503411?utm_medium=rss Thu, 3 Feb 2011 08:15:06 UTC 9503411 Bridget Drury [Signature #400] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9472937?utm_medium=rss Tue, 1 Feb 2011 06:20:00 UTC 9472937 Carol Tyson [Signature #399] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9451922?utm_medium=rss Mon, 31 Jan 2011 09:36:42 UTC 9451922 Mr Scott McGee [Signature #398] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9432127?utm_medium=rss Sat, 29 Jan 2011 04:32:20 UTC 9432127 Mrs Catherine Piske [Signature #397] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9432011?utm_medium=rss Sat, 29 Jan 2011 04:08:28 UTC 9432011 Richard Cooper [Signature #396] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9425430?utm_medium=rss Fri, 28 Jan 2011 01:17:13 UTC 9425430 Corey Horne [Signature #395] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9419088?utm_medium=rss Thu, 27 Jan 2011 06:37:06 UTC 9419088 Dr Eliana Ávila [Signature #394] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9418653?utm_medium=rss I find "by opposing the attempts of anti-gay forces to silence gay Americans" very problematic. Why only Americans? why not gay people, or gays and lesbians -- or, much better (for its all-inclusive of all excluded sexual definitions), queers?

]]> Thu, 27 Jan 2011 05:31:21 UTC 9418653 TJ Sanson [Signature #393] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9418561?utm_medium=rss Thu, 27 Jan 2011 05:15:14 UTC 9418561 Sarah Sznyter [Signature #392] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9416681?utm_medium=rss Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:51:27 UTC 9416681 Mr. Anonymous [Signature #391] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9410860?utm_medium=rss The videos of the arrests in the museum are very shocking and sad. What an embarrassment to museum curators, the arts world, and its patrons.

]]> Wed, 26 Jan 2011 07:33:31 UTC 9410860 Ms. Anonymous [Signature #390] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9408936?utm_medium=rss I want that piece of art back where it belongs, and I want it there now.

I pay tax dollars like the religious nuts do. I have the right to have art I appreciate on display. When in doubt, you display, not censor it.

That's what you people are too moronic to get.

]]> Wed, 26 Jan 2011 02:25:01 UTC 9408936 Anonymous [Signature #389] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9385463?utm_medium=rss Mon, 24 Jan 2011 09:34:33 UTC 9385463 Brendan Smith [Signature #388] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9379352?utm_medium=rss Sun, 23 Jan 2011 10:33:20 UTC 9379352 Mr Andrejs Lubkans [Signature #387] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9378944?utm_medium=rss The few seconds showing the ants crawling over the crucifix on the ground are not anti-religious or anti-Christian. They show a society, in this case Mexican, disrespecting Christian values. There is no connection whatsoever with the Christmas season.

The Smithsonian is in practice betraying the cultural ideal of openness it claims to support. It spinelessly succumbed to some threats uttered by a few bigoted people.

]]> Sun, 23 Jan 2011 08:15:58 UTC 9378944 Mr Joel Kelsey [Signature #386] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9375198?utm_medium=rss Sun, 23 Jan 2011 09:20:30 UTC 9375198 Mike Alewitz [Signature #385] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9372338?utm_medium=rss Sat, 22 Jan 2011 06:24:27 UTC 9372338 Ms Brindley Goodger [Signature #384] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9372108?utm_medium=rss Sat, 22 Jan 2011 05:29:15 UTC 9372108 Mr. David Steib [Signature #383] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9371446?utm_medium=rss Sat, 22 Jan 2011 03:06:43 UTC 9371446 James Alefantis [Signature #382] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9371358?utm_medium=rss Clough should be fired by the Board of Regents.

]]> Sat, 22 Jan 2011 02:52:59 UTC 9371358 ms Margaret Wermer [Signature #381] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9366307?utm_medium=rss I saw the film at the ica in boston, and definitely don't think it should have been censored in any way, or not shown the museum.

]]> Fri, 21 Jan 2011 05:43:42 UTC 9366307 Anonymous [Signature #380] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9358638?utm_medium=rss Thu, 20 Jan 2011 09:33:36 UTC 9358638 Trudy Donnellan [Signature #379] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9358465?utm_medium=rss Thu, 20 Jan 2011 08:28:53 UTC 9358465 Jenn Sichel [Signature #378] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9357902?utm_medium=rss Thu, 20 Jan 2011 05:48:36 UTC 9357902 Ken Picini [Signature #377] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9357428?utm_medium=rss Thu, 20 Jan 2011 04:23:03 UTC 9357428 Mr. John McGrath [Signature #376] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9357412?utm_medium=rss Thu, 20 Jan 2011 04:20:54 UTC 9357412 Mr. Johnny Correa [Signature #375] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9356406?utm_medium=rss Thu, 20 Jan 2011 02:04:44 UTC 9356406 matthew may [Signature #374] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9356269?utm_medium=rss Thu, 20 Jan 2011 01:49:27 UTC 9356269 Caryn Brock [Signature #373] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9354963?utm_medium=rss Thu, 20 Jan 2011 10:52:24 UTC 9354963 Mr Max Koss [Signature #372] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9354644?utm_medium=rss Thu, 20 Jan 2011 10:10:44 UTC 9354644 Mr Brian Pears [Signature #371] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9351670?utm_medium=rss Thu, 20 Jan 2011 03:04:15 UTC 9351670 Mr. Carl Stein [Signature #370] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9351210?utm_medium=rss Thu, 20 Jan 2011 01:16:55 UTC 9351210 Grace Bauer [Signature #369] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9351193?utm_medium=rss Thu, 20 Jan 2011 01:12:21 UTC 9351193 Audrey Keesing [Signature #368] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9350965?utm_medium=rss Censorship is unacceptable. The work must have been extraordinarily good to cause you to lose your sense of art. It is my hope the GLBTQI and closeted employees of the Smithsonian decide to sue you for a hostile work environment.

]]> Wed, 19 Jan 2011 11:44:33 UTC 9350965 Mr Eric Mackey [Signature #367] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9350357?utm_medium=rss Wed, 19 Jan 2011 08:14:51 UTC 9350357 mrs L Fisher [Signature #366] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9349910?utm_medium=rss Wed, 19 Jan 2011 06:13:22 UTC 9349910