Posted on 12/19/2018 9:26:25 AM PST by EdnaMode
The barrier-breaking new show, “The Prom,” claims to feature the first lesbian couple to ever front a Broadway musical. And while fictional, the creators say the story was inspired by real-life events — and a real-life politician.
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Beguelin said an additional source of inspiration came from an unlikely place: Vice President Mike Pence. He said he especially wants those, like Pence, who are not known to be proponents of LGBTQ rights, to come see the show.
While Pence has recently been criticized by LGBTQ advocates for, among other things, speaking at an anti-gay group's conference and not mentioning the gay community on World AIDS Day, his reputation for being opposed to LGBTQ rights goes back to at least 2000. Perhaps most notably, however, Pence gained national attention in 2015 while governor of Indiana for signing into law a controversial religious freedom bill widely viewed as anti-LGBTQ.
Beguelin extended a personal invitation to Pence, saying, “I think you really need to come and see ‘The Prom,’ and also, we set it in Indiana because of you.”
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>>...and not mentioning the gay community on World AIDS Day
Wait I thought they’ve spent decades saying it isn’t a gay disease.
Where was the statement from the heroin junkies sharing needles community about their diss?
bttt
Yes, because he's a Republican through and through, and will be drawn to this farce like a moth to a flame, to demonstrate whatever it is that Republicans think they're demonstrating when they walk into these traps set for them time after time.
So, they want to hurt Vice President Pence by putting make believe homosexuals in Indiana?
Isn’t that actually hurtful to homosexuals?
The Left figures they have destroyed Trump.
They are now targeting Pence.
Third in line....Pelosi becomes President
That's a relief. I thought the whole thing was political there for a minute /s
This sounds boring. Why would anyone watch this except as virtue signaling to announce “I’m woke!”
Came here to post that very meme. Well done Badger!
Whether Pence goes or not, this offer will give the musical a lot more publicity than they would normally have gotten.
Oh please - Pence isn’t anti-gay rights - he’s anti-gay marriage.
A perfectly rational viewpoint because gay marriage isn’t REAL marriage.
Again - the only point to have government involved in marriage is to regulate child rearing. Period. That’s it. Gay couples cant produce offspring. It’s this kind of stupid and insipid lunacy of insisting that gay relationships are just like heterosexual ones is what’s driving the complete and utter irrationality in the rest of our society.
It always is with the gay agenda and the left.
That’s two plus hours of Pence’s life he would never get back. They are looking for free publicity.
Gay broadway musical? Isn’t that triple redundant?
Hamilton goofiness is more palatable than this gaye jive musical. Just saying that if we get free Hamilton tickets then OK. But not some gay silliness musical.
“...Creator of gay Broadway musical...”
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Isn’t that, like, ALL of them?
Beware the male Jeopardy contestant who runs the “Broadway Show Tunes” category.
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