Christian Right Up in Arms Over the Gaying of Musical Oklahoma!

[left-of-center2012]

Over the weekend, The New York Times ran a piece about Rauch’s interpretation of the Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein musical that features a lesbian couple as the leads Curly and Laurey and a gay male couple as the secondary pairing of Will Parker and Ado Andy (originally Ado Annie). Additionally, the character of Aunt Eller is a transgender woman played by a trans actress in the Oregon production.

Now the Christian Broadcasting Network's website is featuring a story about the queering of the classic musical, decrying it for removing heterosexual couples and replacing them with same-sex couples. "It's just the latest activist effort to twist classic American entertainment into pro-gay entertainment,” says CBN.

The production, which also features interracial couples, is not the Christian right’s only recent target. As CBN points out, anti-LGBTQ Christians have been gnashing their teeth over the queering of Anne of Green Gables on Netflix’s Anne With an E.

"The creators of the series have carefully manipulated the classic story with an agenda that fits their worldview," Tess Farrand, a contributing writer for the anti-LGBTQ Movieguide, The Family Guide to Movies and Entertainment, wrote in July about the Netflix series.

https://www.advocate.com/religion/2018/8/22/christian-right-arms-over-gaying-musical-oklahoma

[Croney]

1. It's not either-or. There is room for both

interpretations and more. How about an animated version with farm animals? As long as the great songs get sung! Stupid close-minded bigots don't need to buy tickets.

[Funtatlaguy]

2. The stupid meaningless stuff they care about...and the big stuff they don't.

[ChazInAz]

3. I'm an actor.

Used to do a lot of summer stock: old musical favorites.
In my experience, there's a huge percentage of assorted gay people in these casts. It's about damn time they got to fly their colors openly on stage!

[gay texan]

4. Well if the Xtian Right is pissed

Then our plan is working!

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

[left-of-center2012]

5. "our plan"

The 'gay agenda'

[gay texan]

7. make the world fabulous

by any means necessary

[SCantiGOP]

6. Gayness in Broadway musicals?

Reminds me of the Congresswoman Davenport strips in Doonesbury years ago. Her clueless elderly male friend, who chaired the local Ballet, was opposed to gays serving in the military and noted that, if allowed, it could spread to the ballet next!