Below is Bialogue's letter to LIFEBeat's executive director, John Cannelli and CC'd to the Sarah Peters Operations Manager. If it seems a bit emphatic, what we really found disturbing was their self-justifying statement that blamed activists for the concert's cancellation, rather than taking responsibility for their insensitivity and misjudgment.

This is the reason they gave for the concert's cancellation: "the possibility of violence at the concert from the firestorm incited by a select group of activists makes canceling the event the only responsible action"( Read more... )

Hopefully they have learned that "artists" who advocate death by hanging or burning for gays and lesbians are not appropriate headliners for their AIDS fundraisers.

You'd never know it from their statement http://www.lifebeat.org/news.cfm/article/46 which reeks of self-justification.

Feel free to call or write them to give them a piece of your mind after you read their statement. Contact info below.

Contact Information:
LIFEbeat, Inc. (http://www.lifebeat.org/)
630 Ninth Avenue (between 44th and 45th Streets)
Suite 1010
New York, NY 10036

Telephone: 212.459.2590
Toll-free: 800.AIDS.411
Fax: 212.459.2892

John Cannelli, Executive Director, x101, (jcannelli@lifebeat.org)
Sarah Peters Manager, Operations, x119, (speters@lifebeat.org)