Farce majre: David Mamet mak wh the gay jok, reflectg straight men to themselv. - Free Onle Library

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• FARCE MAJRE: DAVID MAMET MAK WH THE GAY JOK, REFLECTG STRAIGHT MEN TO THEMSELV.

FARCE MAJRE: DAVID MAMET MAK WH THE GAY JOK, REFLECTG STRAIGHT MEN TO THEMSELV.

”He ma the remark while discsg a Florida law prohibg classroom discsn of sexual orientatn and genr inty certa younger gras, a law opponents have labeled “Don’t Say Gay. ” And the culture wrer Mark Harris wrote on Twter, “At a time of creasg threats to gay people, David Mamet has chosen to ally himself wh the purveyors of a vic ugly slanr that will endanger teachers and LGBT Amerins. Speakg on Fox News Sunday, Mamet gave his two cents on the subject of muny ntrol of tn, after Florida passed a so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which bans sexual orientatn or genr om beg tght to children unr 10.

Discsg the very real and not at all ma-up or nakedly homophobic moral panic over “groomg” schools, Mamet told Mark Lev, “This has always been the problem wh tn. Well, as this nversatn happened the ntext of Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill — which forbids teachers om discsg sexual orientatn wh stunts any way and has largely been cried as discrimatory — one n only assume that Mamet believ, as have many homophob before him, that queerns is lked to sexual predatn.

You the right wg’s gay-groomg-pedophile culture war latn may seem to have spng up out of nowhere the past few months, this anti-LGBTQ myth has s of history behd . Its most famo proponent was Ana Bryant, who succsfully mpaigned agast an anti-discrimatn law Da County, Florida, while argug that “a particularly viant-md [gay] teacher uld sexually molt children. Ron DeSantis that tractors have dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" bill.

Romance * Wrten by David Mamet * Directed by Neil Pepe * Starrg Bob Balaban, Larry Bryggman, and Keh Nobbs * Atlantic Theater Company, New York (through May 1)David Mamet, the playwright and filmmaker bt known for tough-guy works like Glengarry Glen Ross, seems to be gog through a gay spell. Buns, played by Keh Nobbs), out urt, he sets off a nutty strg of gay revelatns.

Before you n say "flight to Ibiza, " they're all floatg wild theori: Do gay men prefer movi black and whe? Still, Romance do rg chang on an old Mamet tactic: He homophobic humor to exprs straight men's secury about their masculy while mockg at the same is the thor of the bgraphy Sam Shepard.

" Then Lev brought up Florida's recently enacted "don't say gay" law, which prohibs classroom stctn on sexual orientatn and genr inty the early gras and rtricts for olr rpond, "What we have is kids not only beg doctrated but groomed, a very real sense, by people who are, whether they know or not, sexual predators.