A fellow SexPoller, David Steinberg, has been travelling around showing photos from his latest project, "Divas of San Francisco," which features portraits of transsexual women who work at or frequent the bar Divas in San Fran. His work is currently showing at the Benham Gallery in Seattle in a show titled "Erotic Beauty." The show opened March 5th, and David was there on the 8th to give a talk on the show.

This past Saturday, someone smeared feces on the outside of the gallery during business hours, and then the next day someone threw a manhole and smashed the front window of the gallery. The gallery owners posted a sign on the plastic covering where the window used to be that reads:

We believe our window was smashed by a person who was challenged by the content of this exhibition. The subjects of these artworks have experienced enough of this kind of cowardliness and violence. We are happy to discuss our curatorial decisions with anyone who wishes to talk with us instead of experiencing this kind of behavior

Indeed! That's some fucked up BS for ya.