U.S. Customs agents seize White Crane Journal as pornography
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The issue, with the theme of "Community" features a cover photo by author and former Advocate editor and Mark Thompson, which is one in a series of photos Thompson took documenting the first radical faerie gathering in the Arizona desert in 1979. White Crane has been touring a portion of that photographic study entitled Fellow Travelers to LGBT community centers around the U.S. Customs agents apparently took one look at the four mud-caked male butts on the cover (in a photo that is, otherwise, a sea of mud-caked heads in a group hug) and seized it. The issue has been returned to the printer in Canada, and will be out to subscribers and bookstores in the next week. White Crane is a reader-written journal of Gay wisdom and culture that is entering its 20th year of publishing. It is distributed in 23 countries and was a 2005 nominee for an Utne Independent Press award for spirituality coverage. It is published by White Crane Institute, a 501(c)(3) educational corporation, which also publishes books and sponsors the Gay Men's Health Leadership Academy and various other cultural projects in the LGBT community around the country. Courtesy of the White Crane Journal |
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