{"id":94052,"date":"2016-07-04T13:56:14","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T13:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/07\/04\/optimysticals-legally-bitchtastic\/"},"modified":"2016-07-04T13:56:14","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T13:56:14","slug":"optimysticals-legally-bitchtastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/07\/04\/optimysticals-legally-bitchtastic\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/optimysticals.tumblr.com\/post\/146835290520\" target=\"_blank\">optimysticals<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/legally-bitchtastic.tumblr.com\/post\/146234683611\" target=\"_blank\">legally-bitchtastic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/sluttyalfred.tumblr.com\/post\/86159223726\" target=\"_blank\">sluttyalfred<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>nobody talks about rent enough<\/p>\n<p>\u201cmodern media doesnt diversify gays enough. they\u2019re all white m-\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/a77bce365d97f547d472c65e52db85ac\/tumblr_inline_n5smohkKp81rsbl1s.gif\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cyeah but what about lesbia-\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/36f468cdcea6b5758708185ac2475d52\/tumblr_inline_n5smt81fWF1rsbl1s.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201chow about interracial couples-\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/49fa24bc33298c2e71b19342acecfbde\/tumblr_inline_n5smw8okXV1rsbl1s.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cwhat about transgender-\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/600f027c15db88a6d82ddf81c7b3b002\/tumblr_inline_n5smy022jj1rsbl1s.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(you could also argue that she\u2019s nonbinary, as mimi also quotes her saying that she called herself \u201cmore than a man than you\u2019ll ever be, and more a woman than you\u2019ll ever get\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cwhat about bisexua-\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/11d698ae7a9ef70d102992e8524dd459\/tumblr_inline_n5snjaSoZl1rsbl1s.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(anthony rapp, who plays mark, is bisexual too)<\/p>\n<p>4\/7 of the main cast are PoC and 4\/7 also have AIDS<\/p>\n<p>not to mention this movie is a MUSICAL I MEAN rip jonathan larson<\/p>\n<p>IN CONCLUSION rent is a very important movie\/musical<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ok, no, you guys do not understand how important it was for RENT to feature LGBT people, sex workers and addicts living with HIV\/AIDS in 1993. In 93, AIDS was only just beginning to be recognized and was still heavily stigmatized. Many people believed that it was a \u201cdirty\u201d disease that only affected degenerate people. Some even believed that it was a sent by God to dole out punishment to sinners. For RENT to not only tell the story of AIDS victims, but \u201cundesireable\u201d AIDS victims was unbelievably brave and important.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And there is so much LGBT\/AIDS history that we have lost (because they don\u2019t teach it) that is kept alive in RENT.<\/p>\n<p>Things like the landlords turning off the heat because it would speed up the death of AIDS tenants and they could then bring in higher paying tenants and businesses.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>optimysticals: legally-bitchtastic: sluttyalfred: nobody talks about rent enough \u201cmodern media doesnt diversify gays enough. they\u2019re all white m-\u201d \u201cyeah but what about lesbia-\u201d \u201chow about interracial couples-\u201d \u201cwhat about transgender-\u201d (you could also argue that she\u2019s nonbinary, as mimi also quotes her saying that she called herself \u201cmore than a man than you\u2019ll ever be, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/07\/04\/optimysticals-legally-bitchtastic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[262,7159,917,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94052"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}