Mekas’s defense found almost no support from the artistic establishment.

Evidence

There were no more public showings as Mekas devoted his energies to the upcoming trial, his defense funded by Jerome Hill and abetted only by a handful of academics, an assortment of Beat poets, and the newly formed New York City League for Sexual Freedom. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 512

Categorization

• XREF: The thin defense coalition (a few academics, Beats, League for Sexual Freedom) shows how marginal the scene was — relevant to any argument about how scenes become markets only later, after legitimacy is won.