Early Life
Mike Diana was born in 1969 in New York. He, his younger sister and younger brother, Matt, were baptized Catholic. His mother placed him in an after school art program where, for one assignment, his class was to collect seashells on the beach and incorporate them into a collage made with plaster of Paris. Diana instead incorporated the garbage and a dead fish he had found, referring to the beach pollution that at the time, was the topic of news stories. Diana would later relate this story during his obscenity trial to illustrate his point of view that "art can be ugly and convey a message."
In 1979, when nine-year-old Diana was in the middle of fourth grade, they and their parents moved from Geneva, New York to Largo, Florida. Though Diana received barely passing or failing grades, he received A's in art classes.
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