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Call to Action:  Stop Anti-LGBTQI+ Comic Dave Chappelle from Performing at Luther Burbank Center for the Arts

Gary Carnivele July 24, 2022

The tasteless, anti-LGBTQI+ comic is scheduled to perform three shows at Luther Burbank Center for the Arts in Santa Rosa, July 26-29.  Perhaps the LBC staff and board are unaware of Chappelle’s numerous anti-Trans comments that are well-documented and of which he has offered no apologies.  Chappelle identifies as a so-called “TERF (Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist)” joining author KJ. K Rawlings in such dangerous hate speech.   Netflix has come under fire for producing and airing two recent Chappelle shows that feature anti-Trans comments.  Recently, a Minneapolis show switched locations as a direct result of a protest organized after Chappelle refered to Monkeypox as “a gay disease.”   Should the North Bay’s LGBTQI+ Community allow hate speech and inflammatory comments to be staged in our backyard?  Make no mistake – this is not an attack on free speech.  This is about making LBC aware that Trans people are harmed and even killed as a result of such despicable comments.  We value this venue, but should not allow them to present a show that so many members of this community finds offensive, inflammatory and even dangerous. 

If you aren’t aware of this man’s exploits, check out these articles:

‘Comedian’ Dave Chappelle brands critics ‘transgender lunatics’ and calls monkeypox a ‘gay disease’
Duke Ellington school theater not renamed after Dave Chappelle

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-pop-culture/netflix-releases-dave-chappelles-speech-slamming-transphobic-joke-crit-rcna37291

There are many others, needless to say.  

PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO AS MANY OF YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY AS POSSIBLE.

Let the Staff and Board of Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, its sponsors, those who share the Center’s campus, and elected officials know that such hate results in harm to members of the LGBTQI+ Community.  Email and call, as many as possible and as often as possible.

Let’s stop these shows and send a message to every venue in the North Bay that anti-LGBTQI+ hate speech will not be tolerated!

Luther Burbank Staff

President: Richard Nowlin: 707-800-7524 [email protected]

Dir. of Special Projects:  707-800-7525Robin Seltzer [email protected]

Culture Specialist:  707-800-7542 Arlene Smith [email protected]

Community Engagement:  707-800-7520 Ashleigh Worley [email protected]

Education Operations:  707-800-7504 Chrystie Prokopakis [email protected]

Community Supe: 707-800-7529 Tracy Sawyer [email protected]

Marketing: 707-800-7500 Anita Wiglesworth [email protected]

Advertising: 707-800-7513 John Cain [email protected]

Development: 707-800-75-5 Ben Taylor [email protected]

Giving Manager: 707-800-7531 [email protected]

LBC Board 

Chair Susan Preston (SPG Insurance Solutions) 415-475-4300

Kathleen Hamilton:  Tekberry Inc.  844-835-2377

Rena Charles (ARENA Galleries) 707.603.8787 [email protected]

Robi McMinn 707-433-2000

Monica Lopez (Bachas Landing Cellars) 707-395-0697 

LBC Sponsors

Lytton Rancheria: 510-215-7888

Rodney Strong Wines: 707-431-1533  

Exchange Bank:  707-524-3000

Vantreo Insurance: 707-546-2915

Redwood Credit Union: 877-545-4100

Morris Distributing:  707-769-7294

Spaulding McCullough & Tansil: 707-524-1900; [email protected]

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