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When a show closes, the reactions tend to swing wildly, and the buzz around The Queen of Versailles has brought that into sharp focus. I’ve been seeing people celebrate the closure, while others scold them for being insensitive because a company is suddenly out of work. Both reactions skip over something that feels obvious to anyone who’s worked in this business for more than a minute.

A closing isn’t the end of employment on that stage. It’s

When I saw that word—that word—thrown around in the article, my first reaction was the familiar sting it carried through so many years of our history. It’s a slur that was used to keep people small, and it still carries that weight when it’s aimed like a weapon. And yet, something interesting has happened over time within parts of the LGBTQ community. Many of us have pulled that word away from the hands that tried to use it against us.

There’