Playwright Robin Baitz, recipient of a $15,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, made two donations of $7,500 to two institutions that were denied NEA grants because they exhibited sexually explicit material. In a letter to the NEA, Baitz said that his transfer saves him from being "complicit" in the "cultural sacking of this country" by conservatives. The fact that Baitz had received a grant now mortified him because it meant he was insufficiently offensive to the "psychosexual hysterics" and "cultural carpetbaggers" rampant in America.

An NEA spokesperson responded to Baitz's contribution, "We are delighted anytime someone in the private sector wants to support the arts."

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