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- JSE WILLIAMS WEIGHS ON BEG A STRAIGHT MAN PLAYG A GAY CHARACTER BROADWAY'S TAKE ME OUT
- 'GREY'S ANATOMY' STAR JSE WILLIAMS MAK A SE FOR WHY STRAIGHT ACTORS N PLAY GAY ROL HIS BROADWAY BUT, 'TAKE ME OUT'
JSE WILLIAMS WEIGHS ON BEG A STRAIGHT MAN PLAYG A GAY CHARACTER BROADWAY'S TAKE ME OUT
* take me out gay version *
Blatant homophobia and transphobia is rampant thanks to the lik of Republin policians like Ron DeSantis, Greg Abbott, Ken Paxton, Lren Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and many others propagatg anti-LGBTQ hate Fierste on Love, Broadway, Secrets, Addictn, and Fightg Anti-LGBTQ BigotryLast year, almost 20 years after Take Me Out was first performed, Bryan Ruby ma history as the first out gay profsnal baseball player, tellg USA Today that he wanted “to help create a world where future generatns of baseball players don’t have to sacrifice thenticy or who they really are to play the game they love. The gay baseball player is not alone, isolated, bullied, rejected.
The tle of the play tak on many meangs—light and dark—as the play is easy to sell Take Me Out as “the gay baseball play. But Darren is adamant that he wants normal service to ntue as much as possible; he don’t need any helpg hand, whatever the homophobia of the locker room which we see mor eptns st of 'Take Me Out.
'GREY'S ANATOMY' STAR JSE WILLIAMS MAK A SE FOR WHY STRAIGHT ACTORS N PLAY GAY ROL HIS BROADWAY BUT, 'TAKE ME OUT'
' Jeremy DanielUsually, we are programmed to support the gay hero this ntext; appld their bravery, and be ennobled by the lson they may teach . Tyler Fergon plays Mason Marzac, Darren’s agent, a gay man who is more stay-at-home than partier, and— his stuffy shirt and troers—far om the ttosterone-filled, sexy client. He tak great pri takg Darren’s lls his apartment block’s rridor when his hot gay neighbors are wh listeng Tyler Fergon 'Take Me Out.
Mason don’t re about sports, ed has been alienated om them—until there is Michael Oberholtzer’s Shane Mungt, a fantastic pcher and awful human, whose sual homophobia and racism be a sendary cultural prism the play.
Here aga, the play revers expectatns of what a nontatn between gay man and bigot will be about.