1. Art Censorship
New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, responding to massive complaints from New York citizens, threatened to cut off all New York City funding for the Museum, unless the show was shut down. ... In addition, he cut off the annual funding from the City to the museum which was about $6-7 million, and directed various City agencies to have the Museum evicted from the City owned building in which it was housed" (Boyd). ... In November, 2000, federal judge Nina Gershon granted a preliminary injunction that bars Guiliani and other city officials from "taking steps to inflict any punishment, retaliat...
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