that rent post is so hilariously uneducated. you clearly were born after like 1997. the play was written by a homeless gay man about his homeless gay friends? why ya so stupid?
I was born in 1985 and Jonathan Larson wasn’t gay and although he had a crappy apartment, wasn’t homeless either.
(As far as I know, he never made a public statement about his sexuality, but he dated women. He lived at Greenwich and Spring St. in Lower Manhattan, on the fifth floor.)
why ya not do research before yelling at me?
and it's literally about the thing you were complaining it isn't about?? like it's making fun of people who took what they did less seriously all bcos they partied a little bit. way to think you're better than people because you think activists can't party. also straight people rly didn't like gay people "partying" and having fun so partying itself, going to clubs was an act of rebellion
Roger and Mark also aren’t gay. Or activists, other than anti-paying-rent activism that only extends to their own building. The only characters who are any kind of activist are Maureen (activism consists of the worst performance art piece known to man or god) and Collins (activism consists of extremely plot-convenient hacking skills).
I don’t think the play is even meant to be about activists; like La Boheme, it’s about struggling artists. But whether it’s intentional or not, some of them (particularly Mark) are “struggling” in a really contrived and self-indulgent way.
Like, I’m not going to make some sort of case that Johnathan Larson or RENT are the worst things ever. But don’t get in my inbox all “no, RENT is pure gay activism and above criticism” about it, because no it is not.
