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The absolute shit show that occurred when my city's local theater group (of which I am a part) decided to hold auditions for Rent...
People who had been happily performing side by side with openly gay and trans cast members were suddenly pulling out bibles to quote scripture during meetings and getting "prayer circles" to surround the theater when they rehearsed...
Many friendships ended that year. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Edit: I agree with you, this just gave me a chuckle due to my own personal experience with a small number of people that are not representative of a whole.
You okay honey?
Edit: smh it's a number from Rent.
I'm afraid so.
Edit response: lemmy doesn't strike me as a place for tons of people knowing lines or lyrics to musicals, and isn't quite big enough for a lot of outliers... Could be wrong though. Although even if I didn't know all the words by heart, I'd have just taken your question as genuine concern with my mental state, given the people who were around me.
Wait I don't understand. Why did Rent turn them suddenly openly trans- and homophobic?
Same reason why some gamers are okay with women and people of color being side characters but snap when they're in the leading role
But everyone knows a wamen cannot into strength!
Black people didn't exist until the 1700s!
STOP EMJOYING THINGS I DON'T LIKE
Or something like that. Almost every argument for fantasy-type settings where "that character wouldn't be black/is described as X" but honestly if it doesn't affect the story, who gives a shit.
Yeah, sure. Plenty of characters are described in books as "alabaster/cream/other word for pasty ass white" but not once does it come up in the story. Nobody is racist against other colors. Slavery is for everyone including royalty. So why bother making a fuss about skin color or hair color when there are MOTHERFUCKING DRAGONS FLYING AROUND. If you're looking for realism, that wyvern fucked off a long time ago.
What shits me is that this so often happens with adaptations, and when the adaptation that did this ends up terrible they end up claiming it's proof they were right all along. As though the inclusion of a minority character is somehow the cause of terrible writing, set/prop/costume design, effects, acting (including from the cishet white actors), and direction. No, it couldn't possibly be because most adaptations are terrible regardless, it must be tHe gAYs.
Bible belt city in the US, but in a purple area.
They're oh so magnanimously okay with the gays when they'r not being "in your face about it" (aka literally just showing as much affection for a partner as any straight couple, or mentioning it in passing, or doing anything that could call attention to them being gay/trans/etc)
But having a musical that revolves around a trans woman, a gay couple, and involves AIDS? That was simply too much for their (self)righteous sensibilities, and must be protested!
I mean, they could have just not participated, kept their mouths shut, and ignored everything about it, but at least now we know who the secret garbage people are.
They should've done something good and Christian, like "Angels in America"
Maybe Book of Mormon?
Somehow, apparently Mormons actually really like Book of Mormon.
unsurprising to me, it still has a positive optimistic message even if it it's tearing into "some" mormons