Miss Kitty pulled by Catholics
A Catholic pressure group has protested about a sculpture of the Pope Benedict XVI in drag, causing it to be pulled (via) from a gay exhibition in Milan.
Curator Eugenio Viola told Associated Press: “It was made clear to us that it would be better to remove the piece.”
The Catholic Anti-Defamation League complained that the sculpture - entitled “Miss Kitty” and created by Paolo Schmidlin - was defamation of the Pope and threatened to press charges.
According to Milan’s culture counsellor, Vittorio Sgarbi:
“This exhibition represents gay Pride. It gives space to artists who show homosexual aesthetics in a flashy, proud way with a few irrepressible provocations.”
And, on the subject of the sculpture:
“I’ll keep it with me so that I can give the Pope back the decorum he deserves.”
That’ll be none at all, I assume.
Monday 16 Jul 2007 | Paul | Italy
