The trials will move forward.

Photo by yospyn. It’s been a few weeks since the National Portrait Gallery chose to take down David Wojnarowicz’s “A Fire in My Belly” after conservative writers and Congressional Republicans complained. A few protests followed, various galleries are now showing the piece, the Andy Warhol Foundation threatened to withdraw its funding to the Smithsonian. Now the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation is threatening to do the same, if the Portrait Gallery does not reinstate the piece…

PETA doesn’t actually take offense to the depiction of rats as the bad guy in the classic ballet, but rather the ballet-goers sartorial choices. PETA has been protesting the Washington Ballet’s production the past few days, targeting the audience members who chose to wear fur. Dressed as a bunny in a tutu (don’t you know fur is tutu cruel), PETA protesters were seen mostly as funny to passerbys. Apparently as protesters approached probable fur-wearers, all…