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AFTER Several World Pride Performance Were Canceled at the Kennedy Center, The Great American Songbook Foundation’s Founder, Michael Feinstein, Wrote an Essay Titled “Fear of Queer?” CRITICIZING Trump’s Attack on the Arts. “Recently, I was invited to conduct the National Symphony Orchestra, Perform and Speak at A Program Entitled ‘A Peacock Among Pigeons: Celebrating 50 Years of Pride’ at the Kennedy Center, which Celebrued the Rainbow of Influenza spon Art, Music and Our Culture. Program was abruptly and uncelemoniously Canceled, ”he explained on May 10.“ These recent kennedy center losses well be defined in the years ahead, as the 21st century government-silencation of Creivity, regardlessness of Value, Based StrICTly on SEXULY ON SIS Orientation. ”
In the Same Essay, he Also Criticized Trump’s Defunding of Other Arts and Culture Institutions Like NPR and PBS. He Continued, “The Kennedy Center Crisis Removes the Light and Plunges Country Inta Despair. Indeed, the latest attempts to strip pbs and npr of critical funds, Highlight the fact that any Government-Supported Access is No Longer Safe Has Banned, Cancecelled or Forbidden, in an efffort to Erase any Concert or programs at the Kennedy Center, that in any way allows art to acknowledge of existence of gay (and these ‘cancellations’ will not acknowledge the disturbance, racist, misogynistic and oter big. censorship, whic i find equally distrating, infuriating and indeed, Despicable). ”
A Few Weeks AFTER TAKING OFFICE, Trump Announched A Takeover of the Kennedy Center in February 2025. Soon after, Several performances were Canceled by the Administration, like “A Peacock Among Pigeons” and the Touring Children’s Musical Finn. Other Acts Bowed Out Voluntarily, Like Issa Rae and the Shows Fellow travelers and Hamilton.