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Patterns and Portals: New Works by Stanley Brudage and Keith Clark
at Meyerhoefer Galler
October 1 thru October 26, 2008
601 N. Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd., Fort Lauderdale, FL

Artist Reception
August 5, 6:00-8:0pm

A new exhibition “Days without Sunshine: Anita Bryant’s Anti-Gay Crusade” opens at the Broward Main Library on Wednesday, June 6. The exhibition, organized and presented by Stonewall Library & Archives explores singer Anita Bryant’s Save Our Children campaign which successfully repealed a 1977 Miami-Dade ordinance that outlawed discrimination based on sexual orientation in employment, housing and public accommodation. Bryant’s self-styled crusade marked the beginning of a concerted backlash against America’s increasingly vocal and organized homosexual population which was gaining political momentum. The Save Our Children campaign set an example that would be repeated by religious conservatives throughout the coming decades. It also garnered unprecedented media attention for the growing Gay Rights Movement, and served as a catalyst for the Gay and Lesbian community to organize nationally and fight back.

Opening almost 30 years to the day of the June 7, 1977, repeal of the ordinance, the 20-panel exhibition is comprised largely of printed materials from Stonewall Library & Archives along with video, audio and other printed artifacts borrowed from other private collections. The exhibit centerpiece is a 17-minute video compilation of news clips and interviews during the 1977 campaign drawn