Gay Nazis Are After Maureen Mullarkey!!!

New York artist and art critic Maureen Mullarkey is pissed off about all the negative attention she’s getting after the NY Daily News uncovered her $1000 donation to Yes On 8.

Artist Maureen Mullarkey, known in the gay community for paintings depicting drag queens and scenes inspired by gay pride parades, responded to criticism of her donation to the campaign to ban gay marriage in California this week by attacking the intimidation of artists who supported Proposition 8.

Mullarkey said she supported the measure, which passed in November overturning an earlier court ruling legalizing gay marriage in California, because she believes “marriage is the union of husband and wife – a premise so simple, so fundamental that nature and civilization itself both testify to the truth of it.” Gay rights groups and Web commentators said Mullarkey was hypocritical to make money off gay people and then donate it to a cause that denying them what they consider a fundamental legal right.

Mullarkey likened the attacks to Nazi “brownshirt tactics.” “Artists are not in the habit of imposing ideological conformity on one another or demanding it from others,” she said. “Moreover, regard for individual gay persons does not require assent to a politicized assault on bedrock social reality and the common good.”

Maureen, you can take your common good and shove it. Good luck getting another show in NYC.