I would absolutely go see this show.
Back when I was in college, I knew a man who self-identified as bisexual with a preference toward men. He worked as a music teacher in a local suburban school district. He had a beautiful voice but felt that he could not join the Columbus Gay Men's Chorus for fear of losing his job. His fear was not unreasonable, sadly. I often wonder if he ever felt comfortable enough to join CGMC, but I lost track of him over a dozen years ago so will never know the answer to that.
I'm hoping that the reason I haven't heard any public controversy about this production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is because nobody thinks it's a big deal that gay men are sharing a stage with a children's choir. I'm hoping that it means that people are starting to understand that just because you are gay does not mean you are a pedophile. Or trying to recruit impressionable youth. I also hope that it means that any gay youth in that children's choir learn that they are not alone. And that straight allies exist.
I hope that the reason I haven't heard anything isn't because I've just been in some sort of hole or something.
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Like you, I'm hoping it's the former rather than the latter. I don't get why people think gay people are "recruiting" others to their lifestyle. No one would ever accuse a group of heterosexuals of recruiting, so what exactly makes a group a non-heterosexuals different? I just don't get it. *shrug*
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