Hair isn’t the only Broadway musical that’s celebrating a gay wedding this weekend. There’s a certain semi-famous, closeted Republican finally tying the knot with his same-sex partner on Sunday. Here’s a hint: it’s not Charlie Crist.
The Wall Street Journal reports:
Off Broadway (though it used to be On), Avenue Q will mark [marriage equality] by having Rod and Ricky, the same-sex puppets who have met and fallen in love on stage 3,267 times since the show’s Broadway opening in 2003, join the men and women lining up at City Hall to officially wed Sunday, the first day same-sex couples can be legally married in the state. Let’s just hope the newlywed puppets will make it back uptown in time for the show’s 3 p.m. curtain call.
You may remember that Rod’s biggest struggle during Avenue Q is living as a closeted homosexual Republican. You’re not alone, Rod—believe us.
The show’s playwright, Jeff Whitty, also famously wrote an open letter to Jay Leno after Leno asked Ryan Phillipe to make his “gayest” face on an episode of The Tonight Show. In response, Whitty sent Leno a picture of his gayest face: an unamused expression with his middle finger fully extended. Whitty’s pretty badass and it’s equally badass that the musical will recognize the momentous occasion.
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But wait—muppets getting married? Isn’t this what New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan warned us about? Kinky muppet-on-muppet action? God! Not even Sesame Street is safe from homos anymore.
JettStone
Um….yeah, great.
let’s make a joke out of a battle that absorbed millions of gay dollars that were diverted away from HIV/AIDS programs, gay youth programs, etc; cost years of peoples lives, billions in Federal tax dollars fighting it, and which was the dying wish of many LGBT folks.
Now let’s appreciate all this effort with a PR stunt and a cliche B’way joke about humping puppets. Hilarious.
Daez
@JettStone: I’m not sure where to begin. Are you trying to say we should have spent that money on HIV/AIDS (stop being a slut and fucking positive men and you have nothing to worry about) or gay youth programs (I was quite able to fend for myself so they have absolutely no excuse why they can’t…plus I grew up in small town America where you didn’t have many allies).
I’m not exactly sure how you can bring up the cost in federal tax dollars unless you are speaking of DOMA, and yes the fight took quite awhile and a lot of effort.
However, I’m not sure how the issue getting more attention suddenly makes it into a big joke. The more attention that the issue of gay marriage gets the better.
ChrisM
@JettStone: Agreed.
“Oh, cool, gays can get married in New York now! Let’s pretend our stupid puppets that get laughs at gays expense are getting married, cause these are just novelty certificates after all. Right?”
Fuck Avenue Q. If they really wanted to celebrate this law, they could have released a statement in support. Instead, they pull a gimmicky promotion for their dumb musical.
Daez's Brain
@Daez: who bravely wrote (in reference to gay teen bullying) while waving a bloody high heel in her hand: “I was quite able to fend for myself so they have absolutely no excuse why they can’t…”
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Well, aren’t you precious, you could “defend” yourself in your little redneck town from bullies by giving them BJs when their girlfriends were riding the rag. Good for you. Guess what genius, a lot of gay kids are picked on by entire gangs of other kids – often older kids. So, a pink belt in Kung F.U. doesn’t do a little scrawny gay kid much good when they’re outnumbered and terrorized on a daily basis. But what does that all matter to some self-centered a-hole like you who thinks the entire universe revolves around your bloated ego?
As far as the puppets go. Yeah, it shows a lot of class. I wonder how Black civil rights advocates would have felt if some jackass had a mock wedding of a black puppet with a white puppet in celebration of the 1967 Supreme Court decision (Loving v. Virginia) which struck down bans on interracial marriage. Leave it some queers to trivialize our perpetual civil rights struggles and the occasional rare victories we have. With friends like these, who needs NOM?
Straight Man 1
Same sex marriage is sick, disgusting and completely perverted. It does not produce new humans. Male to male just does not reproduce as God intended. Neither does female to female. In the world of plumbing, electrical and irrigation there are male and female pipes and fittings. These fittings do not work male to male. Its not possible. A male organ was not made to go in the exit hole of another human, the hole was designed to rid the body of excrement.
xander
@Straight Man 1 : Yet you still find the need to cruise gay web-sites after your wife goes to asleep? I worry about closet cases such as you.
xander
@straight man 1 : You still visit gay sites, though? Hmmmmm : what does that mean?
Secure Straight Men Aren't Homophobes
(allegedly Straight Man 1) puked out: “…the hole was designed to rid the body of excrement.”
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Awwww, are you having Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome flashbacks related to your birth again?
Sorry, but you lost in New York…. Ha! Ha!
…oh, I just gotta say it again…
Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
and (snort! snort!) …Ha!
chris ahl
The constitution was created to protect our rights,not to deny them.Equal protection under the law.That’s what being an American is all about!If some believe you can pray away the gay,perhaps they can pray away the intolerance they feel for gay people,immigrants,fat people,people of color,poor people.
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