Seattle Statue Controversy: "A Thinly Veiled Homage To Pedophilia"…
Los Angeles Times:
SEATTLE — Stuart Smailes was a jolly, potbellied man, proudly gay, with a walrus mustache and a passion for Broadway shows, merry-go-rounds and calliopes, his friends say.
But most of all, he was an art buff — so much of a buff that he left a $1-million bequest for a fountain sculpture to the city of Seattle, with an unusual stipulation: It had to include a naked man.
First Posted: 10- 2-05 10:02 AM | Updated: 03-28-08 02:43 AM