I'd guess most people go there to hear Dolly Parton tunes...not to watch a gay musical.

At least he gets it. He admits the entertainment industry lives in a bubble.

People who lives in bubbles don't understand that people who might go with the grandparents or kids frankly find the topic of a guy talking about his boyfriend uncomfortable and for some down right digusting.

Ironically, gays can be very intolerate.

Just watch the posts on this thread demonstrate it.

Eb,

Yes...I am married 40+ years.

I was never really in a closet. High school I was out. Navy I was out. That was actually kind of difficult since it was pre-DADT earlier 70s when gays were simply banned.

Was pursued by a young woman and like what happened in My Fair Lady, I grew accustomed to her face...well...and something else too.

It wasn't an easy decision to stop being with men. I should write a book. Nothing atypical about my life. Middle of the road views on many things. Even politically I was republican...then democrat...then republican again.

This gay musical thing I can see both sides. Gays are angry and offended as well as some straight people who spoke up.

Everyone have legitimate and valid reasons for their feelings.

The question is what should have happened differently so no one feels slighted?

In some ways this story reminds me of Jerry Springer episodes where a gay man tricks a straight man into thinking he's female and the straight guy gets upset and the gay one acts like "what's the problem...he's just a homophobe."

I mean...what do you expect?

Dan,

Not in my case.

My life has been an open book with friends and family.

Dan,

"I'll repeat: isn't a gay man publicly getting married to a woman the epitome of being in the closet?"

Sounds more like a rhetorical question from a close-minded know-it-all than genuine curosity.

So this communication is done.

Hag,

"bring you to violence"

I don't recall reading that in the story.

Maybe you should be up on stage considering you go for the dramatic effect.

Red,

No...I was not serious. No book will be written.

However...I joined the navy when I had just turned 17.

At 18 I did start a journal and have written my thoughts and feelings and many life events ever since. I go a few months not writing but I've continued all along.

It's interesting reading things you wrote when you were essentially a different person who lacked experiences and saw the world through different eyes.

And sometimes you see things later you missed about events and people when you were in the thick of it.

Umm...ok...I mentioned on here a friend helped me get started going to college when I first left the Navy. I was living with the Pastor I mentioned earlier. I had feelings for this friend who walked me through the process of going to the VA and signing up for benefits and getting enrolled in classes but we never developed romantically. Later I read stories I wrote about things we did and arguments we had. He was more mature than I was. Now I can see in my writing if I had been more mature we could have had something together I suspect. I can tell he must have cared for me things he said and his being jealous....what if??

Another story I read years later after writing something after moving away to another city. I took an after school job and recorded in passing meeting a girl I didn't know then but would someday marry. What's funny is I had known her one week and casually mentioned if I ever married a girl it would be someone like her. Go figure...

And lots of other stuff I wrote over the years.

It's interesting reading about events you remember one way that weren't as bad as I thought things were then and only remembered how I felt at the time but had long since forgotten the details.

Hmmm....maybe I should clean it up and publish it.

Joking...

Laura,

"You know the mature thing to do would have been to quietly get up and walk out and leave if you don't like the play. It's not that hard to do. Just sayin."

Apparently from the frequency of people weekly making neg comments, the show failed to advertise it was a gay musical.

Your callous attitude is exactly what is going to set back gay rights.

An inability to grasp the reality this a heterosexual world making accommodations for gays.

Swallow it.

Laura,

I know the gay world. There are gays just like Disney who sing 'It's a Gay World After All"

Just like the male lead pointed out he is shocked at the response the world outside of his bubble.

Again...I hate to see gay rights set back but that is what will occur so long as gays keep playing shock and awe trying to force acceptance from people who will never truly accept.

Clown,

"Times have changed, and that's what really scares conservatives."

You had the gays who are flamboyant ------- then...and still do today.

You had the gays who don't put on a show and don't advertise they're gay then...and still do today.

You had the straights who don't really care what people do in their private lives but don't want it put in their face then...and still do today.

You had the straights who hate ----- then...and still do today.

You had people who live in their own isolated bubble of society then...and still do today.

People have not changed.

To quote Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr from 1849, "The more things change, the more they stay the same".

Clown,

I think America is becoming more shameless and there's an increasing lack a purpose of living.

I'm glad to see the strides gays have made living without fear of police raids and more legal protection by law enforcment and the courts.

I'm delighted to see the military change under Obama where gays can openly serve. That was a scary time for gays who served fearing for their careers.

The wants and desires and fears and needs of humans haven't really changed but society has stopped pushing for the most positive traits of humanity and instead are succombing to the least desireable traits.

Personally...I'm not seeing the progress liberals so like to brag about.