It wasn’t little Mohammed it was little Schumel freed from the wrong kind of prayers in public school. Hasn’t Kushner ever heard of redlining? (Don’t ask: he probably wrote a fifteen minute discussion of redlining for West Side Story.) Instead, according to Kendi and Coates and the infallible Theory of Systemic Racism, that’s a reality. And Kushner says this new wave of legislation is just the latest incarnation of a clampdown on rights under the conservative “fantasy” of a nation under “exclusive control by white straight men.”īut that’s no longer deemed to be a fantasy. His “Angels in America” hit two-part play examined the AIDS epidemic and L.G.B.T.Q. Their argument? It’s about “parental rights.” But the playwright Tony Kushner has seen this kind of battle play out before. Greg Abbott issuing a Texas directive that would classify medical care for transgender adolescents as “child abuse,” Republicans across the country seem to be doubling down on anti-L.G.B.T.Q. Ron DeSantis signing Florida’s so-called Don’t Say Gay bill to Gov. Tony Kushner on the Republican ‘Fantasy’ of a Nation Controlled by ‘Straight White Men’įrom Gov.
Gay playwright Tony Kushner, fresh from wrecking Steven Spielberg’s remake of West Side Story with his talky, annoying screenplay (that no doubt encouraged a high proportion of the several thousand people who saw it in movie theaters to mutter, “Shut up and sing”), is falling behind the progressive curve: