And speaking of Mr. Elston, here’s his response to this post about Boy Scouts, art and homophobia:
My own experience with the Boy Scouts was formative. In 1967 I returned to Spokane, my hometown, coming from L.A. and on my way to Montreal. I was invited to participate in an anti-Vietnam War action by my good friend Jed Irwin, who was then the Curator of Art at Cheney Cowles Museum. The Boy Scout Jamboree was being held at Farragut State Park, Idaho.
A small group was going to leaflet the visiting international Scouts.
When we arrived, we were immediately surrounded by Boy Scouts. We had not even removed the leaflets from our bags. As soon as we began distributing, the leaflets were ripped from the hands of our recipients, and we were soon surrounded by angry and threatening American Boy Scouts.It was clear that they were prepared for our arrival, a fact which became clearer still when we returned to our cars and discovered that, of the several hundred cars in the parking lot, our 5 cars all had slashed tires… I do not have much tolerance for romanticized depictions of the Boy Scouts.
Related: the California Supreme Court fails to do the right thing, here.
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