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damia -> Sex School? Class Dismissed. (11/14/2007 5:51:37 AM)
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http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/pa/20071110_Sex_school__Class_dismissed.html
A Rittenhouse Square co-op board is terminating the lease of an art gallery that is staging a show called Red Hot and featuring seminars on such subjects as Basic Bondage and Spanking 101.
Perry Milou, who operates Galleria 1903 at 1903 Walnut Street and is one of the exhibiting artists, said yesterday he plans to challenge the decision to end his lease.
In a letter dated Nov. 6 and now displayed in a larger form in the window of the gallery, the Rittenhouse Plaza Co-op Board gave Milou the required 90-day notice that his lease would be terminated.
Stanton Oswald, the co-op board's president, did not immediately respond to messages left at his office and home yesterday. But he told 6ABC this week it was the seminars - not the art - that prompted the action.
"This is not what we lease the space for," he said. "This is not normal activity for - quote - an art gallery."
Milou said the four-day show, which ends tomorrow, is a celebration of "love, marriage and relationships."
He said that if he had staged a baseball art show featuring seminars by members of the Phillies, he would not have received a termination letter.
"It's obvious that there is discrimination of people's sexual preference going on here, there's discrimination of the erotic art," he said.
"It's very tastefully done and very classy and the events we're going to have all weekend are going to be classy," Milou said.
He said he plans to meet on Monday with attorneys who have advised him that he has "several strategies I can play."
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