Public Junior College Blocks Speech By Gay Porn Star buzzfeed.com/shani/college-… via @buzzfeedlgbt
— DanRiehl (@DanRiehl) March 21, 2013
The gay porn star, Conner Habib, has more on his ordeal, "Why Are We Afraid to Talk About Gay Porn?":
Last week, I was informed by Corning Community College Vice President and Dean of Student Development, Don Heins, that the school's president, Katherine Douglas, had singled out my talk and decided to cancel it, against student wishes. They agreed to honor the contract (which they'd signed off on and which contained a cancellation fee), but they were worried that the talk would be "controversial." I wasn't scheduled to speak about porn, but to talk more broadly on sex and culture. The reason I was banned was because she'd changed her mind after discovering that I was not, as she'd thought, an educator who used to be in porn, but rather a university instructor before I started appearing in adult films.Continue reading.
I was told she stated, empathically and more than once, that pornography cannot and should not be linked to LGBT rights.
When I communicated with frustrated students, I told them that I'd consider coming anyway and that I could work on finding another venue if they were interested. Then I was informed that administrators contacted a local hotel and local businesses to make sure I wouldn't be coming to town, that a student was pulled aside and told not to give direct comments to the press, that the president wanted to schedule her own talk to tell students about why she canceled my appearance, and that if I were to appear in the town of Corning, students were not to attend my lecture.
And checking over at the college's homepage, this announcement was at top, "CCC's Center for Diversity and Inclusion Grand Opening." Well, obviously "diversity and inclusion" doesn't include LBGT student groups who'd like to hear a gay porn actor discuss human sexuality. Too diverse, I guess.
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