The great irony: homophobic conservatives who love RENT — Page 4

I can't seem to find one adorable theater-loving gay boy in NYC either.

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Maybe you and JRB should go have coffee or something. At the very least you could be united in your efforts to find other theater-loving gay men. Hey, living in a big city has taught me that you take friends where you can get them. Lord knows you run across plenty of people who would just as soon smack you as look at you.

I'm seriously wishing we were all in the same city right now. Even though it's Chicago, it's still a bit tricky to find so many kind, intelligent people who love the same things I do and feel the same way I do about some of these issues.

And I envy those of you in NYC right now with all this Rent promotional stuff going on tomorrow. No one wants to throw a bone to those of us out here in the NYC of the Midwest. And no one seems to want to help me program my VCR to tape the Today Show performance tomorrow.

AW! Thanks, Foster! Unfortunately I am a writer who is broke broke broke and won't be traveling any time soon. I tihnk I'll just fiddle with my VCR tongiht and try to tape something else on that channel as practice.

Well jrb_actor you can't start a thread like this and not expect it to get away from you, you should really heed your own advice.

"And you opened it up for discussion on a board populated by ALL types of people. " jrb_actor

"Gee, I know someone would be my hero if that someone were..." to find me tapes of tomorrow's performances. But nothing illegal, mind you. I'll try to tape it but it would be nice to have a backup in case it doesn't work or the tape quality turns out crappy.

I think they will, too. But it's Rent. I don't want to take any chances. And if I can relive that morning of brilliant music over and over and over again, I will be so very happy. GAH! I'm such a blubbering goof over this show!

JRB;
Woof. That weight watchers thread is working. Love your new avatar.

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I'm a liberal homo who HATES rent...

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Derech2, RentLondon, meagan9848, KelRel, etc:

I'm pleasantly surprised to see so many who feel the same way I do...I completely understand how you love Rent as conservatives or Republicans or whatever.

Good point (by someone) about Chicago, I had that same thought...I don't support murder and violence and yet I love this musical, as do many.

And just to keep this conversation fair:

I've read the word 'biggot' so many times in such a harsh way, and I just wanted to kindly remind everyone to beware of stereotyping...it seems to me that most of the conservatives on this board don't really fall into that category of hateful, hypocritical, homophobic, biggots that you are referring to (I know there are plenty of those out there, though).

I just don't want this to split the board down the middle in a miniature World War III type argument...there is too much love between us all for that!

Jrb_Actor asked a fair, honest question, and as Conservative Rent fans, we are giving our fair honest answers. And I know that the homosexual community doesn't need our Support, but please realize that when posters have said something about not supporting homosexuality, they are just identifying themselves as people who Jrb_Actor was referring to in his initial post...I don't think anyone intended it as offensive or snide (though I can't speak for everyone, of course.)

And I apologize for my horrid spelling :)

Good point, Curtain Up...

I think the point behind that statement could go with, say a serious movie...like The Godfather, maybe...I don't know, point behind that it contains and often glorifies much violence, and even if you don't agree with that view, you still enjoy it.

Does that make sense?

BroadwayBaby6, I don't mean to speak for you, but I know plenty of gay people who hate RENT too, and the reason why is because Angel dies and Mimi comes back to life. It's just so typical that the gay character is sacrificed and all the straighties live happily ever after. Collins looks on as Mimi and Roger get to spend the rest of what's left of their lives together and it's like, why the &$#* did Angel have to die? I hope I'm communicating this well. But SO MANY of my friends have told me about how this bothers them about RENT. Angel, Collins, Roger, and Mimi all have AIDS. Collins is the "normal" mainstream gay guy. Mimi and Roger are straight. Angel is the drag queen, so the audience is sad yet satisfied that Angel becomes the sacrificial lamb. Lots of people see RENT as a step backward because of that, since gays have been portrayed for years as these people who everyone loves and adores (like Angel) and then that person dies and everyone holds together and is better for it.

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