Some people aren’t comfortable with public displays of affection. Don’t believe me? Consider the scene that unfolded at a Hartford Public High School (in Hartford, Connecticut), when audiences reacted to a pro-gay advocacy play featuring two boys locking lips.
The musical, called “Zanna, Don’t!,“ is about an ”opposite world” of sorts in which heterosexuals are the minority and homosexuals are the majority. In the play, straight individuals are outcasts and the most popular guy in school is — gasp — a gay student who is on the chess team.
“Zanna, Don’t” was brought to the school by the Leadership Greater Hartford’s Quest, which is described by the Hartford Courant newspaper as, “a program for professionals that develops leadership skills.” The paper also reports that the group put on the show in an anti-bullying effort that members hoped would help gay, bisexual, transgendered or “questioning youth.” The Courant continues:
In a partnership with the nonprofit True Colors, one Quest team raised $10,000 to show the musical three times at Hartford High this month. The Knox Foundation and the Samuel Roskin Trust at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving gave sponsorship money.
But not everyone was enthusiastic about the show. As soon as the kiss took place, there was instantaneous clamoring. Screams, loud voices and disgust broke out and the school’s football team stomped out in protest. Some people were so anxious to leave the auditorium that they allegedly jumped over seats to get to the exit.
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Gay Kiss During High School Musical Leads to a Student Walk-Out
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Maybe there's hope for us after all!
ReplyDelete"Questioning youth" don't NEED to be encouraged into perversion - they need to be told "That's SICK!" - because IT IS!
This "stealth" sickness has been going on a long time. Locally there was a paper that went out to ELEMENTARY parents warning them of an upcoming "study of families" and offering parents an "opt-out."
Many parents thought "Why would I want to opt-out of 'FAMILY Studies'?" - I was one of the very few who quickly understood that the lead text would be "My two dads" or "heather has two mommies" and the whole "learning goal" would be to get the kids to agree that "*ALL* families are equal" - whether single mom, single dad, or man-woman/man-man/woman-woman/man-woman-woman/woman-man-man/etc/etc/etc.
Naturally, I was right - right on down to the "texts." Sadly, even my own daughters now see me as "hopelessly old fashioned" though they dare not say (hack-spit) "homophobic" in my presence! I have no "phobia" of homos or anyone else. Call me "homonauseated"? Fine! Homodisgusted? sure!
man-man/woman-woman/man-woman-woman/woman-man-man/etc/etc/etc.
ReplyDeleteDamn, DD, you left out animals!:)