BREAKING:
https://twitter.com/Newsweek/status/1503510441133326340
On Saturday, during a matinee performance at The Carriagework Theatre put on by the Bite My Thumb theater company, an audience member left, according to Bite My Thumb.
The audience member left during the performance of "Today 4 U, Tomorrow 4 Me," sung by the drag queen character Angel. The leaving theatergoer told a staff member they were leaving because "I didn't realise this show was about gays."
I mean, one of the more popular anti-Rent arguments circulating these days is that
it kinda isn't. HIV/AIDS features heavily but the two gay chars are pretty much sidelined and feel pretty token... And the bi woman (she's bi) just wants to bang everything and everyone.
Important for representation at the time, but Rent honestly does not live up to it's uber-gay reputation.
Not that this audience member would know any of this...