“I hate America. I hate this country. It’s just big ideas, and stories, and people dying, and people like you. The white cracker who wrote the national anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word 'free' to a note so high nobody can reach it. That was deliberate. Nothing on earth sounds less like freedom to me. You come to room 1013 over at the hospital, I'll show you America. Terminal, crazy and mean. I live in America, that’s hard enough, I don’t have to love it. You do that. Everybody’s got to love something.” ― Tony Kushner, Angels in America
In Tony Kushner Angels in America, it speaks to a time in our nation's history, particularly in the early eighties to roughly the year 2000, where the AIDS virus plagued numerous people. Kushner …show more content…
Kushers play had hints of how gays were discriminated against, I think the play excellent, but to show the grittiness or the reality of what the disease did to the LGBT community would not have been such a commercial success or gained such notoriety. but the play is clever and it does a good job of displaying scenes of intersectionaltity as well as discrimination but there all subtle and you really have to play close attention the sudleties like when prior was in the hospital and he was being attended by the nurse and he made the comment that his dentist had to wear condoms on finger to check his tongue that was key, perhaps this genera ration of millennial may have caught I don't know I can't speak for them. I know that I am able to speak to that because I am speaking from firsthand knowledge. Consider an eyewitness to those events, another scene is where closeted homosexuals did want to be outed such as Roy Kohn scene with his doctor, when he say Roy Known is not a homosexual Roy known is a heteteesxula man who has sex with men, tha was another sign that instantly brought me back to a period in time where a lot of gays chose to stay in the closet especially people in positions of power. See folks back …show more content…
Those scenes in Kushers play where Lois and Joe would go into is called in the gay community cruising spots, they were in central park where the gays had a name for their meeting spot called the rambles, I hear people in my class and around complaining that this play is to white, let me tell you guys something Kushner is a white man, who is gay I am sure he knows all these terminologies I am speaking about, keep one thing in ming this just occurred I know that people of color are missing from this play, but it just occurred to me that each director whether he is white or not typically not always will talk about their experiences like this case Kushner is a white man talking about the gay experience from white mans perspective, how is that any different when spike like makes a movie and talks about the black experience. Of course I am not naive or an idiot I understand the concept of whiteness as it applies to films or plays or whitewashing, however I am not so sure that is what Kushner is doing here I don't know, I am in his mind, but there are many that would disagree with me in my class because they want to see more people of color, I think this play had a black queen Belize perhaps from Kushner's personal experience that is how he experienced the aids epidemic, if Robert Rodriguez decided to write or direct a play he probably would be speaking from a Latino's
In Tony Kushner Angels in America, it speaks to a time in our nation's history, particularly in the early eighties to roughly the year 2000, where the AIDS virus plagued numerous people. Kushner …show more content…
Kushers play had hints of how gays were discriminated against, I think the play excellent, but to show the grittiness or the reality of what the disease did to the LGBT community would not have been such a commercial success or gained such notoriety. but the play is clever and it does a good job of displaying scenes of intersectionaltity as well as discrimination but there all subtle and you really have to play close attention the sudleties like when prior was in the hospital and he was being attended by the nurse and he made the comment that his dentist had to wear condoms on finger to check his tongue that was key, perhaps this genera ration of millennial may have caught I don't know I can't speak for them. I know that I am able to speak to that because I am speaking from firsthand knowledge. Consider an eyewitness to those events, another scene is where closeted homosexuals did want to be outed such as Roy Kohn scene with his doctor, when he say Roy Known is not a homosexual Roy known is a heteteesxula man who has sex with men, tha was another sign that instantly brought me back to a period in time where a lot of gays chose to stay in the closet especially people in positions of power. See folks back …show more content…
Those scenes in Kushers play where Lois and Joe would go into is called in the gay community cruising spots, they were in central park where the gays had a name for their meeting spot called the rambles, I hear people in my class and around complaining that this play is to white, let me tell you guys something Kushner is a white man, who is gay I am sure he knows all these terminologies I am speaking about, keep one thing in ming this just occurred I know that people of color are missing from this play, but it just occurred to me that each director whether he is white or not typically not always will talk about their experiences like this case Kushner is a white man talking about the gay experience from white mans perspective, how is that any different when spike like makes a movie and talks about the black experience. Of course I am not naive or an idiot I understand the concept of whiteness as it applies to films or plays or whitewashing, however I am not so sure that is what Kushner is doing here I don't know, I am in his mind, but there are many that would disagree with me in my class because they want to see more people of color, I think this play had a black queen Belize perhaps from Kushner's personal experience that is how he experienced the aids epidemic, if Robert Rodriguez decided to write or direct a play he probably would be speaking from a Latino's