Bush wants to ban gay writers from being read in school, no Streetcar?

[Melodybe]

Tennessee Williams is one of the most celebrated playwrites in history.

His play A Streetcar Named Desire is one of the most performed high school plays. It is also one of the most performed plays of the last 100 years.

Will the madness of King George ever end?

[messyca]

1. Do you have a link?

You have got to be kidding me...I haven't been watching the news, so I haven't heard of this yet.

[berni_mccoy]

2. Time for Farenheit 411

The temperature at which books burn.

[Melodybe]

4. It was up earlier, Bush has been meeting with the ass that

wants to ban "gay" books.

Search the archives you'll find it.

[messyca]

8. I heard about that Ass-munch

...but didn't realize the other Ass-munch was meeting with him. When can I wake up from this nightmare?

[Hieronymus]

13. It's 451

[berni_mccoy]

17. DOH!

:dunce: :spank: :cry: It's too late to change it too. Thanks for the correction.

[antigone382]

28. Actually, that's Fahrenheit 451

Understandable f 9/11 confusion. Close enough though :)

[DemBones DemBones]

3. Link? eom

[gottaB]

6. here's one

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1369643,00.html

[WMliberal]

5. no Shakespeare then, kids

or Oscar Wilde, Walt Whitman... oh jeex, this list could take a while.

Oh, that would include the King James version of the Bible, since Jimmy was gay himself.

[NuttyFluffers]

10. exactly, ain't it grand?

my president wants to ban the bible.

couldn't have written it better myself.

[Mist]

11. And forget Shakespeare, he was bi

[tsuki]

12. Was Jimmy gay? I thought he liked big wimmen. Or was that Charlie?

[aquart]

14. King James had a few favorites.

There isn't much good proof.

Hated witches though. And filthy tobacco.

Of course, he merely commissioned the translation. He didn't work on it.

[WMliberal]

20. jimmy liked the Duke of Buckingham

VERY public relationship.

[drhilarius]

7. No "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof". n/t

[NuttyFluffers]

9. ok. no King James Bibles on campus :)

Bush wants to ban the bible from schools!?!? OMG we must tell everyone about this! what will the school prayer groups do? this is discrimination against those persecuted christian youth clubs! how can our president do something like that!

:evilgrin: why look, what a mighty big pile you stepped in mr. prez!

[erniesam]

15. How much longer until these assholes get raptured out of here

"Dig a hole," Gerald Allen recommends, "and dump them in it."

Of course, Allen was talking about books. He was just talking about books. He never said anything about pink triangles.

[gottaB]

21. Yes, it was an extremely hostile choice of words

for an extremely hostile agenda.

[PurityOfEssence]

16. Guess ya can't sing "Swanee River" or "My Old Kentucky Homo" neither

(Actually, the title of that first one is "Old Folks At Home".)

Cain't foster no poofery, now can we?

[nostamj]

19. no Cole Porter, Jerry Herman, Steven Sondheim

Lorenz Hart, the list is endless...

don't have the link but here's part of one article:

MONTGOMERY - An Alabama lawmaker who sought to ban gay marriages now wants to ban novels with gay characters from public libraries, including university libraries.

A bill by Rep. Gerald Allen, R-Cottondale, would prohibit the use of public funds for "the purchase of textbooks or library materials that recognize or promote homosexuality as an acceptable lifestyle." Allen said he filed the bill to protect children from the "homosexual agenda."

[Misunderestimator]

18. Music will be next... no more Leonard Bernstein

No more Benjamin Britten. No more Elton John.

[kitchen girl]

23. Makes his appearance...

at The Kennedy Center last week all the more hypocritical. I kept waiting for someone to jump on that one - gay-hating Shrub honoring gay Elton John - but no one did. Guess they were all too busy admiring Pickles' and Condis' gowns. :eyes:

[blm]

22. Bush likes gay campaign managers, press sec., and field directors for HIM.

Bush is using all the peripheral antigay issues to make the right think he is as antigay as they are. He's lucky because the press won't bring up the fact that Bush is actually FOR gay civil unions with all its legal protections, so the right wingnuts don't have to face the rank manipulations of their worldview for Bush's political gains.

[HootieMcBoob]

24. Looks like it's just Hemingway and Mailer from now on n/t

[gorbal]

25. I didn't see anything about Wilde

I think it is gay "material" not gay authors that they are trying to ban. Although I wouldn't put that past them;)

[gottaB]

27. It's impossible to extricate gayness from literature

Now don't get me wrong. I'm not trying to force the Nick Adams Stories down anybody's throat, but if we set out to undertand the origins and meanings of butchness in Hemmingway's writings, sooner or later we're going find ourselves kicking back in a Parisian salon with bonafide gays and lesbians, reading and discussing gay literature. Isolating hetero works from gay works is as foolish an undertaking as redacting all the gay parts from Leaves of Grass or, in the example cited in the Guardian, As You Like It.

[fishwax]

26. well, I've heard zelda would sometimes accuse

f. scott fitzgerald and hemingway of being lovers when she and he were fighting, so perhaps papa is out of bounds as well.

[antigone382]

29. No Walt Whitman or Willa Cather

Oh well, I guess we can replace all the great literature they'll be missing with the "Left Behind Kids" series.

[lakelly]

30. Just a thought.

What's next? No gay actors? Hell that would shut down the entertainment industry (including Broadway) for good. The right would be thrilled . Maybe that's the administration ultimate goal. OH god I just saw a promo of Scarborough Country with Ann Coulter. I admit it I'm watching MSNBC. Excuse me but I have to :puke: