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Hughes and the three other artists successfully challenged the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) in 1990, after their individual grants were rescinded. But the Clinton administration appealed the federal appeals court ruling that the decency clause violated the First Amendment and could lead to "arbitrary and discriminatory" restrictions.
Yesterday, Hughes' blend of in-your-face lesbian sexuality and humor did not appear to shock anyone in the audience, which ranged in age from about 20 to 35, except for a pair of 60-somethings.
The audience laughed throughout the performance, which Assistant Professor of English Ann Pellegrini, who introduced Hughes, billed as "dangerous" to conservatives and life-altering.
Sensuously licking her fingers and clutching her breasts, Hughes called performance art "a matter of creating your own reality and forcing other people to sit through it."
It was impossible to tell if Hughes was joking when she said theater is "a tool of social change," and straddled a chair to show how she passionately made out with her mother as a teenager.