David Wojnarowicz journal after meeting NEA Chairman John Frohnmayer September 15, 1989 punctuated with “Cookie’s Funeral 7:30”
November 15, 1989: David attends Cookie Mueller’s Memorial at St. Marks Church late into the night (after a day of confronting NEA Chairman John Frohnmayer at Artists Space and the night before the opening of “Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing” at Artists Space).
It was his attendance at memorials of friends like Cookie that prompted David to write “I worry that friends will slowly become professional pallbearers waiting for each death of their lovers, friends and neighbors, and polishing their funeral speeches; perfecting their rituals of death rather than a relatively simple ritual of life such as screaming in the streets…”