The City Of Brotherly Love

The Film "West Side Story" illustrates how the Puerto Ricans of New York faced discrimination and were used as scapegoats by the American people during the cold war time period to escape their anxieties. Due to the fear of communism and possible nuclear war the 1950-1960s time period was a very fragile time for the American people which produced an air of xenophobia throughout the country. The air of xenophobia is present throughout the play due of the repeated mention of stereotypes about Puerto Ricans and the constant feeling that the Puerto Ricans do not belong. The people of American often dealt with these anxieties in one of two ways, through escapism or through and through the scapegoating. This is made very clear through the comparison of West Side Story to the play The Music Man in the document “West Side Story and The Music Man: Whiteness, Immigration, and Race in the US during the late 1950s”. Like many waves of immigrants, the Puerto Ricans faced discrimination when they arrived and for some time after. This came in the form of people being discriminatory directly to them, housing discrimination and job discrimination. Therefore, the play “West Side Story” expresses the discrimination that Puerto Ricans faced due to the xenophobic nature of the time period.

In the 1980’s and 1990’s, society wasn’t the most accepting of places for people who were different from the “social norms”. Now I know, people today still struggle with trying to fit in and be “normal” but it was different. Being a gay man living in San Fransisco at the time, which had a large gay population, Richard Rodriguez had a hard time dealing with the discrimination he faced. Richard Rodriguez was an American journalist who wrote and published a memoir about his life as a gay man. In October of 1990, Rodriguez published his memoir “Late Victorians” in Harper’s Magazine, a critically acclaimed publication of the time. In his memoir, Rodriguez describes what it was like to realize he was gay and watch as the country changed to become a more accepting place. He does this by setting up how things can change and then explaining the actual ways things change for the gay population.

As a general public, it's outlandish for us to investigate our own particular internal certainties without acknowledging in some capacity that our value isn't managed independently from anyone else alone. The ideas of bias and judgment in light of the characters that are the most unpreventable twirled to a head in this period of retribution, race, and sexuality specifically. The way we see underestimated sexuality delineated and potential HIV+ status in Six Degrees mirror the normal experience of the time, feeling as an individual like some piece of you is a creature disguised on display. Despite the fact that we see through, Paul, Trent, and Rich, the narrow-minded way that this world sees homosexuality, being gay are neither denounced nor is it commended specifically by the play itself. It is introduced like everything else in Six Degrees, a subjective and complex reality that requires additionally understanding before falling back on suspicions. Correspondingly, the twofold edged nature of well-meaning bigotry is analyzed. For instance, amid Flan, Ouisa, Paul, and Geoffrey's first destined supper together, the white characters swing to Paul for his feeling on politically-sanctioned racial segregation, as though his thoughts as the token dark individual in their essence will settle the undertaking for the last time. He performs commendably to their wants; his reaction is thoughtful to human rights however not apparently definitive, and doesn't present any specifically disquieting test to the way of life in which Ouisa, Flan, and Geoffrey as of now work. This presence of acknowledgment just through osmosis is an expansive idea for Six

In a blog post “The Chick Fellatio Ep I: Stuck In the Craw” by Wayne Self, an activist playwright for Huffington Post, claims that the famous chicken sandwich chain, Chick-Fil-A, criminality against the LGBT by handing out millions of dollars to support anti LGBT organizations. Self’s bibliography and the picture of him smiling happily create a strong common ground, also show the readers he is credible for all the work he has done and achievements for the Huffington Post. Moreover, creating a strong common ground with the audience by talking to readers directly, Self effectively brings the readers to his side of the argument, which is to support the LGBT rights. Self provides facts and statistics about how Chick-Fil-A using their profit to against LGBT rights, and proving that Chick-Fil-A is the root of the inequality in LGBT rights. Strengthening the claim of how Chick-Fil-A has supported the anti LGBT organization, Self also articulately uses the emotional attack to find empathy and connections with audiences who view that LGBT rights are equal to basic human rights through his bullying metaphor and the angry passion.

I have recently watched the movie called “The Laramie Project.” The Laramie project is about a young gay student named Matthew Sheppard, who was murdered in Laramie, Wyoming by two boys from the town named, Aaron McKinley and Russell Henderson. The evidence and testimonies from the case suggested that Matthew was attacked, because of his sexuality as a gay man. Matthew was beaten, tied to a fence and left dead in Laramie, Wyoming in 1988. This movie captures the reaction of the murder and draws on hundreds of interviews conducted by the theatre company with the inhabitants of the town, company members, own journal entries, and published news reports. After watching this movie, I reflected on my own perspectives and thoughts about a few issues in the movie, such as hate crime, the phrase “Live and Let Live,” and “flaunting it.”

Speaking in conventional terms, the character “Prior” is single handedly perhaps the most easily and remarkably identifiable protagonist in the play. He’s the most recognizable protagonist due to the fact that he so happens to be the dominant victim in the play. Prior starts off the play at the mere mercy of every single character in addition to everything around him. Prior was also unfortunately abandoned by Louis, is also infected with a type of disease that controls his body and all of its main functions. In addition, prior happens to also be harassed by a heartless and unjust Angel. Lastly, as a gay individual with aids, he ultimately becomes the victim of social bigotry and prejudice as exemplified

He then enters into the details of the case and includes quotes from the legal director at the Human Rights Campaign, experts at the University of Washington, and Stutzman’s lawyer. Johnson presents arguments from both the prosecution and the defense, as well as the result of the matter. He refrains from siding with one perspective or the other. He strictly offers his readers the facts, allowing them to form their own opinions. Proving Johnson’s authenticity is his conclusion, in which he illustrates two contradictory points of view. He quotes Ferguson, who believes that the Supreme Court’s ruling “sends a clear message that ‘sexual orientation is a protected class…’ “ (Johnson). He also quotes Stutzman, who claims “ ‘ we should all be very, very scared ‘ “ (Johnson). The informative theme of Johnson’s article is rare and impressive, especially among LGBT+ issues.

In Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, the interconnection of people and events, that might ordinarily be viewed as disconnected or unrelated, is implicitly presented in the characters section. Dual roles are implemented by a playwright that has one actor portraying the roles of two or more characters, with or without thematic intentions. The use of “dual roles” in several scenes of this play can be viewed as a demonstration of Kushner’s effort in maintaining the interconnectedness between characters, communities (i.e. queer, heterosexual, AIDS and political communities) and events to which they are relative. This essay will argue that Kushner’s use of dual role’s effectively interconnects characters, events and their communities that may

“The play captures some of the anxiety about what it means when government doesn’t respond to a health threat to a certain community or population” (Trotter). Gay men began to protest by putting up posters to maintain their sexual freedom and bring government awareness to what they were blatantly ignoring. Once the government took notice of the persistent resistance they began trying, such as no longer isolating patients in separate wings of a hospital, but putting them in a double-bedded room with someone that didn’t have AIDS (Sontag). Angels of America, along with other literatures about the AIDS crisis, brought a voice and a new chance at life for those diagnosed with an incurable

This event is relevant to policies regarding lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights such as same-sex marriage and discrimination against sexual orientation or gender. Jane Anderson’s great aunt, Edith who was a lesbian was living a life hidden from society in which being gay was not only prohibited, but it was also suppressed. This prejudice was apparent given the fact that she was judged by her family 's lawyer of being gay and it was easier for him to deceivingly institute her in an insane asylum. This specific example

Tony Kushner’s Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, a play in two parts, Millennium Approaches and Perestroika, addresses the historically taboo topics of homosexuality and the AIDS virus with a backdrop of an AIDS epidemic obsessed 1980s New York City. The characters come from diverse ethnic, religious, professional, and economic ways of life but are all tied together by the ever-shifting concept of identity. Throughout the work, Kushner really plays around with this concept and creates quite a perplexity regarding the importance, or lack thereof, of someone’s identity. The most efficient way to attempt to understand what exactly Kushner is trying to express through the play is to break identity down into four major types:

Theatre has always served as a place for discussion of social issues. In For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide, When the Rainbow is Enuf approaches different issues such as sexuality, racial identity and venereal disease. In “Positive”, DJ beats his ex on the implication that he might be gay. Although the poem is graphic, it explores the HIV epidemic of the 1990s. The play shows how homophobia led to the perpetuation of the virus. The play also proffered the message that HIV positive is not always a death sentence and discusses the difference of HIV positive and AIDs. The playwright presents a complex social issue and creates thoughtworthy messages for the audience.

Brotherly Love in The Unvanquished by William Faulkner Ringo and Bayard love each other like brothers despite not actually being brothers. The acted together in brothers in crime, in revenge, and in values. Both of them did everything together from a young age because they were raised together. The two of them stole mules, got revenge on men, and believed the same things because that is what brothers do. The only thing keeping them away from being actual brothers was their DNA.

However, the actual gay liberation had begun in the beginning of the 1960’s the major aspects of the movement did not commence till the late 1960’s where gay pride was much more common. This movie speaks of the discrimination and judgement by the peers of the accused. It was not till after the Stonewall Riots, where cops raided popular gay hangouts and the gays fought back to be respected and have the same rights as a heterosexual, that more gays decided to come out and gay pride marches became popular in many

Elia Kazan’s film Gentleman’s Agreement, a story by Laura Z. Hobson, portrays the tale of a journalist, Phil Schuyler Green, who had recently relocated to New York City from California with his family to work for a popular magazine and write a series on anti-Semitism in the U.S. after WWII. Before fully committing to the series Phil meets Kathy Lacey, the niece of the publisher and the brains behind the idea of the series. The two immediately began dating. Though Green struggled with the idea of working on such a controversial series, he finally commits to the idea after having to explain what anti-Semitism was to his son, Tommy. After a long ordeal, he understands he must approach the series not with statistics, but by humanizing the situation