And the Crowd Goes "GASP!"

[royalartisan]

So, I love how kids these days just think they are so accepting and tolerant and open-minded. And then they turn around and prove how unaccepting and bigoted they really are. Love, love, love it. Are you ready for this one ?

We were at Cal State Long Beach TheatreFest, a high school theatre competition hosted by the university. During the finals round, there was a scene with two girls in it from "A Pirate's Lullaby." May I remind the reader that when you only see one scene, sometimes not even a FULL scene, from a full-length play, the actions and words are taken out of context. Now, from what I could tell, one of the characters is a woman who is cross-dressing as a man so that she can be a pirate. The other character is a man cross-dressing as a woman aboard a pirate ship so that "he" can be pampered. Now, I may be completely off the nail there, but that is what I gathered.


So they kiss, these two girls, right there on the stage, before this little "cross-dressing confusion" is all undone and they are revealed to each other to be of the same sex. But I love how, as soon as the one girl mounts the other and they kiss, you can hear this atrociously audible gasp from the back corner of the audience (99 percent of them teenagers, save for one or two teachers and the judges themselves). It's not even as explicit as it may sound !!!! They each think the other person is of the opposite sex !! But does that matter ? Of course not ! GASP !!! LESBIAN KISS !!! The horror, the horror !!!


I just....wow, you know ?

I almost couldn't believe it.

Now the judges who placed them in the Finals Round are all highly-esteemed old people who've been working in the Theatre for years and years and years and have all these credentials. Evidently, there was something they found unique and particularly charming about this scene, or else they would NEVER have allowed it to pass Semi-Finals into Finals !


I thought the scene was entertaining...

And I had to scream out in my head "It's ACTING, you fools ! JUST BECAUSE THE TWO GIRL ACTORS KISS ONSTAGE DOES NOT MAKE THEM GAY, AND EVEN IF THEY ARE, WHO THE HELL CARES ABOUT THAT ANYMORE !?!?!?"

Ugh.

Just another example of how we're setting ourselves back another decade by entreating homosexuality to the table of "controversial issues."


:rolleyes:

[Zerbie]

Oh this one is close to home. :rolleyes: I'm a high light soprano who has played some love scenes and seduction scenes opposite 'trouser roles,' trouser roles being male parts played by women. It's the same conversation.

One time, a scene partner and I did just fine until her husband came to the final dress rehearsal. He told her afterwards that our performance together was "disgusting." It was a very romantic scene, not a sensual one, sort of a Cinderella rescued by Prince Charming kind of scene, so our physicality was of that nature. Apparently, the fact that both performers were female was enough to cause her husband to make that remark.
:mad:

Don't even get me started about the Cirque du Soleil 'sex show.' :mad:

[Gennee]

I see what you mean, Royal. Much ado about nothing.

Gennee

[royalartisan]

Exaaaactly what I say !! Great play, by the way. Love Shakespeare. XD

Yeh, you know it just...never ceases to amaze.

[Depdem]

Something similiar hapened when i went to watch the new Harold and Kumar movie.

But i guess the reaction changed due to the environment.

When the lesbian couple kissed in this movie there was no reaction from the public.(kinda like when a straight couple kisses)

When the gay male couple kissed there was alot of 'eewws', 'ughs' and nasty remarks going around.

I made a lengthier post(before i accidentaly erased it) but i guess this is the point i was trying to relate.

[royalartisan]

I know what you mean about the new Harold and Kumar picture....
Personally, I found it quite disgusting on the whole...but that's because I'm not used to seeing that kind of....explicit..yeeeeeah.

[Alecto]

Maybe it's just cause I'm cheery today, but the good news I'm seeing is that in a whole theatre full of people, ONE person had an issue with it, y'know?

I haven't seen the movie referenced, but there is a whole....thing about the differences between the way lesbians are oppressed and the way gay men are. Lesbians get to be invisible, which can be a good thing or a bad thing, where as people's attention is always drawn to the gay men. I blame a heterosexual patriarchy which views lesbianism as tittilating and is therefore willing to turn a blind eye.

[royalartisan]

Oh, no, not just one person. I'm telling you the WHOLE back corner of the auditorium shared that reaction.....

But yes, I agree with the second portion of your post..definitely.