The ‘Proud Boys’ anthem was wrten by a gay Jew

Contents:

• DO THE ‘PROUD BOYS’ KNOW THEIR ANTHEM WAS WRTEN BY A GAY JEW?
• IT'S NOT JT FROZEN: MOST DISNEY MOVI ARE PRO-GAY
• THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
• ULTIMATE PRI PLAYLIST: THE 50 BT GAY SONGS

DO THE ‘PROUD BOYS’ KNOW THEIR ANTHEM WAS WRTEN BY A GAY JEW?

In s choice of name the group, which claims to not be racist or poe whe supremacy — while at the same time boastg an imprsive number of whe supremacist lks and openly advotg for the safeguardg of whe masculy — is vokg a song wrten by the Jewish poser-lyricist team of Alan Menken and Howard Ashman, the latter of whom was gay. While at first seems bafflg that a group whose members spew homophobic slurs durg attempted asslts and whose founr ma a vio lled “10 Thgs I Hate About Jews” (before changg the tle and claimg he is not antisemic) would have the song as their namake, actually fs their whole hateful gimmick.

IT'S NOT JT FROZEN: MOST DISNEY MOVI ARE PRO-GAY

Do the ‘Proud Boys’ know their anthem was wrten by a gay Jew? Ironilly, that particular "Aladd" song was wrten by Jewish poser-lyricist team of Alan Menken and Howard Ashman, the latter of whom was gay.

THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

Proud Boys members have spewed homophobic slurs durg vlent attacks, and McInn once rerd a vio tled "10 Thgs I Hate About Jews" before changg the tle. Yet, for playwright Chad Beguel--who is rponsible for the book and lyrics of Aladd on Broadway--his reer has e full circle thanks to two productns wrten by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, the award-wng llaborators behd Aladd, Bety and the Beast, and The Ltle what he lled his own "really gay story, " Beguel was spired to bee a wrer after his father took him to see an Off-Broadway productn of Ltle Shop of Horrors, one of Ashman and Menken's earlit llaboratns.

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Beguel, however, was the shadow of Ashman, an openly gay man who died 1991 at the age of 40 om plitns wh AIDS.