Play with gay Jesus need to find new stage
A Fort Worth, Texas, theater that planned to show a college student-directed Terrence McNally play with a gay Jesus character announced Thursday the offer is no longer valid.
Artes de la Rosa posted a statement [1]on their Web site that the production of “Corpus Christi” will need to find another venue. Students from Tarleton State University planned to state the production.
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“The decision was reached by the Board of Directors of Artes de la Rosa to withdraw the offer of the venue, The Rose Marine Theater, which had hoped to host the 4 theater student directors from Tarleton State University in their continued Academic Directing Theater Projects,” the statement reads. “The Rose Marine Theater will not be hosting these 4 students and their casts at any time in the future.”
In “Corpus Christi,” by Terrence McNally, Jesus goes by a parallel character named Joshua who grows up in the 1950s and ‘60s in Corpus Christi. In the play, Joshua performs the marriage of two apostles, James and Bartholomew. In another controversial scene, Joshua kisses Judas at the duo’s senior prom.
Police are investigating threats send to the Tarelton class that is working on the play, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram [3] reports.
[1] http://www.rosemarinetheater.com/
[2] http://www.365gay.com/wp-content/uploads/news-gay-jesus-top.jpg
[3] http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/03/29/2075580/tarleton-police-to-investigate.html
Humpday Isn’t Really About Gay Sex
Lynn Shelton’s Humpday, a sexual sitcom, opens with a pair of breeders in bed. A youngish married couple, Ben (mumblecordeon Mark Duplass) and Anna (Alycia Delmore), confess they’re too tired to procreate that night and then confess their mutual relief. As if in response, the doorbell rings at 2 a.m. and Ben’s long-lost college buddy, Andrew (Blair Witch Project survivor Joshua Leonard), stumbles in from deepest Mexico. Anna, who has never had the pleasure, watches the unexpected bromantic action with grim incredulity. Aggressively loud, demonstrative, and hairy, Andrew is a credible representation of Ben’s id.
Reuniting an uptight married man with a footloose old pal, Shelton’s third feature offers a (much) more extreme version of Kelly Reichardt’s Old Joy, also a sort of buddy movie, also shot in the Pacific Northwest. In this case, the lost weekend is steeped in sexual anxiety. Friday night, Ben has to retrieve merry Andrew from a house called “Dionysus” — home to a bi cutie (the director herself) and an omnisexual assortment of roisterers. No orgies, but plenty of stoned dancing. Anna, who has prepared her signature pork chop dinner, sits home alone. She stews; Ben gets stewed. Prompted by news of an amateur porn festival — sponsored by a local alt-weekly — Ben finds himself proposing to costar with showoff Andrew in a mad art project, dude-on-dude action, totally straight, yet somewhere “beyond gay.” Maybe they’ll be famous. The only problem: Just who is going to bone whom?
Having thus invested its protagonists in a game of “chicken,” played to justify their respective life choices, Humpday delivers some excellent situation comedy. The scene where Andrew and Anna have a get-acquainted drink and Andrew inadvertently exposes Ben’s boastful lie that his wife has signed off on their “project” is pure Honeymooners. (Bang, zoom, straight to the moon!) Ben can’t tell Anna why he wants to have sex with Andrew, only that it’s very, very important to him. And, terrified that Ben might think he really did have a yen, Andrew can only sigh, “I wish I was more gay.” Of course. Just as Brüno is more of a comment on celebrity culture than the love (or hate) that dare not speak its name, Humpday is actually less a queer comedy than a satiric view of macho. Appreciative as Shelton may be of her dudes, she has another agenda. Each in his own way, the guys have been freaked by a manifestation of assertive female sexuality — although the term “pussy-whipped” is never used.
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Obama expected to name DuBois to faith office
(Washington) President Barack Obama has chosen Joshua DuBois to lead his White House-based effort to steer federal social service dollars to religious charities and get them more involved in government anti-poverty efforts.
DuBois, a political strategist who was religious affairs director in the Obama campaign, will head the President’s Council for …
