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A Museum in Washington banned the video of a gay artist after protests from conservatives and activists.

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington banned the video of the artist David Wojnarowicz, called “Fire In My Belly“.

David Wojnarowicz, which died 1992 because of Aids, wanted to clarify the suffering of people with Aids. In his video, he shows a cruzifix, blotched with ants. The catholic league called the video a “torrent of hatred ” against christians. Because the governental support the exhibition got from the state, it was possible for the conservative republicans in the House of Representatives to ban the gay artist from the exhibition.

LA Zombie, made by Bruce LaBruce, is a gay zombie porn movie and the first film which is banned from the Melbourne film festival since seven years.

Bruce LaBruce, a canadian cirector which is well known for his mix between independent and gay movies, did with LA Zombie his latest shocker. His new movie, LA Zombie, is about gay zombies engaging necrophilia.

Because of its crudity , which include  “wound penetration”, and a alien zombie which is searching the streets for gay people and cadavers to have sex with. The Australian Film Classification Bord gave the order to festival manager Moore that it would be impossible to show this film and that it has to be removed.

Ricky Martin plays in the musical Evita, written by Andre Lloyd Webber an Tim Rice, the argentinean freedom fighter Che Guevara.

The Musical Evita tells the story of the argentinean first Lady Eva Perón, which tooks a important role in the politic of Argentina till 1952. Eva Perón was a important character in the development of womenkind in the politics and supported the socially deprived. Till today, in Argentina, Eva Perón is adored and admired.

Ricky Martin, who had his coming out a few month ago, will play the role of Che Guevara, who comments and escort the story of Eva Perón. The musical is going to play premiere on broadway in spring 2012.

From the 6th. February till the 15th. August the NRW-Forum Düsseldorf shows a Retrospective of the controverse discussed artist Robert Mapplethorpe.

The in 1946 in New York born artist was one of the precourses of photography as art and stood in one line with Andy Warhol and Patti Smith as the avant-garde of their time. He got famous with homoerotic pictures and his selfportraits. Till the end of the 20th Century his work was, especially in the USA, controvers discussed and there were protests and even boycotts against his pictures which show often sexual practices and sadomasochistic actions.

Now the NRW-Forum Düsseldorf shows a retrospective of his work which includes portraits, selfportraits, homosexuallity, actphotography and his early polaroid pictures.

The assortment of 150 pictures shows pictures of the artist from 1973 till 1988, the year he made his famous selfportrait, careworn of his disease. Mapplethorpe died in March 1989 in Boston of the aftermath of his HIV-Infection.