State Department Paying For Play Where God Is Bisexual And Communists Are Good In Bid To Push LGBT Rights Abroad
Federal grant records reveal that the Biden-Harris Administration is funding a play in which God is portrayed as bisexual. The play also criticizes Ronald Reagan, and portrays communists positively. This all happens in an attempt to promote gay rights in Southeastern Europe.
Federal grant records show that the State Department approved funding in September for the North Macedonian production of Tony Kushner’s 1991 play “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia On National Themes”, claiming it would raise awareness in the country about “LGBTQ+ Issues”. The play has multiple plotlines. For example, the ghost of convicted communist Ethel Rosenberg is antagonistic towards dying conservative lawyer Roy Cohn. Another storyline involves a gay man who experiences sexually explicit heaven visions as he battles AIDS.
The play’s script states that Prior Walter, a man with AIDS who has been abandoned by his lover Louis Ironson in the hospital, starts to experience prophetic visions.
In one of these visions, he discovers that angels are equipped with “a bouquet of phalli”, and have “eight vulcanized vaginals”. He also finds out that God created the universe by “copulating” ceaselessly with hermaphroditic creatures. The play explains that ejaculate from the angels is “fuel for the Engine of Creation”.
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Walter tells a man named Belize about these visions. Belize is a former drag-queen who is caring for him in his role as a nurse.
According to grant records, the State Department has committed $20,000. The production has also received an additional $10,500 from non-federal sources.
In the manichaean universe of Angels in America (capitalism etc. ), everything Reagan stood up for is evil. In 2003, a National Review critic wrote that the HBO adaptation of the play was evil. The most vocal Republican is Roy Cohn, the unscrupulous homosexual lawyer who denied both his sexuality as well as his AIDS diagnosis until his death. Kushner discovers his Reagan administration in Cohn, who is ultimately brought down by his own hypocrisy and lies.
Angels in America depicts Cohn as a hypocrite who is prone to anger outbursts, even though he was a real lawyer deeply involved in conservative movements and helped Reagan win the election.
Cohn played a key role in the prosecution and execution of Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg. They were convicted of espionage for the Soviet Union in 1951 and executed in 53. Documents released by the government during the 1990s showed that the Rosenbergs had been involved in an espionage plot.
Rosenberg is shown as a positive character in the play. She antagonizes Cohn through the entire story. On his deathbed, she tells him that she “take[s] delight in [his] miserableness.” Later, Ironson, a secular Jew who has Jewish ancestry himself, guides him through a funeral service for Cohn. This forgiveness is symbolically given to him.
The play concludes with a gay character asking “If Reagan didn’t have me to demonize, where would he have been?”
The National Review critic said that the play “Kushner strips Reagan from any merit and reduces him to a fictional anti-gay Crusader.”
The State Department has spent $120,000 on a participatory theater project in Chad, Africa to improve communication with the local community about the social issue of LGBTQ Rights and Domestic Violence.
According to federal grant records, the new grant is not the State Department’s only theatrical operation in North Macedonia. It also paid for teaching the country’s citizens about environmental issues via theater and dance in the year 2023.
A spokesperson from the Department told the Daily Caller News Foundation that “culture — from music to sport to theater — is an important component of United States people-to-people diplomatic efforts in Chad as well as around the globe and supports broader U.S. Foreign Policy goals” at the time.
The DCNF’s comment request to the State Department was not answered.
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