<b>Wendy Wasserste's inic play, now beg revived on Broadway, unrl important tths about the need for gay men to support women — a pot Patricia Arquette, and others, have stggled to articulate.</b>
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WHAT "THE HEIDI CHRONICL" GETS RIGHT ABOUT FEMISM AND GAY MEN
I knew a guy who knew her high school and at the time he didn't thk she was gay. One of the most important men Heidi's life is her bt iend Peter Patrone (played by Bryce Pkham the revival), a gay pediatrician who out to Heidi the first act. The play poss that for gay men who want the support of their heterosexual female iends, fightg for women's rights is equally sential.
That's somethg many gay men 2015 need to be remd of, and 's what Patricia Arquette was tryg to get at her Osrs speech and her ntroversial remarks the prs room Febary: "It's time for all the women Ameri and all the men that love women, and all the gay people, and all the people of lor that we've all fought for to fight for now. " Arquette was cricized for ignorg tersectnaly — naturally there are plenty of queer people and POC who are also women — but if her remarks n be taken, part, as a ll-out to gay men particular, she's not entirely off-base. In November, Rose McGowan also drew ire when she lled gay men "misogynistic" their failure to mpaign for women's rights.
And jt last month, Madonna clared, "Gay rights are way more advanced than women's rights. People are a lot more open-md to the gay muny than they are to women, perd.