Washington- Seattle strip-club owners need to find a new stage name.
Club owners have banned together to try to overturn the city’s tough new restrictions but the group’s first choice for a political-committee moniker, the Coalition Against Censorship, ran into trouble last week because it was almost identical to that of an existing group — the Washington Coalition Against Censorship, the Seattle Times reported.
The non-profit organization, which fights efforts to ban books in public schools, has been getting phone calls inquiring about the nude-dance campaign, said Barbara Dority, the group’s executive director.
Dority said the name similarity was confusing and asked the clubs to pick a different one.
On Friday, Gil Levy, an attorney for Rick’s strip club, announced the clubs’ second choice: Free Speech Seattle.
The Seattle Times says that name is also taken.
Free Speech Seattle formed several years ago to fight a city ordinance banning posters on utility poles. That law was ruled unconstitutional, but the group still maintains a Web site.
