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When the musical “The Producers” opened on Broadway and even more so when the movie version hit the cineplex GLAAD condemned it, partially because of its supposedly offensive portrayal of gay men as swishy, lisping, loose-wristed effeminate creatures who live only for musical theater and care for little else.
And also because of the supposedly equally offensive portrayal of the one person in the scene who worked on the technical side of the business we call show as being a butch woman with short cropped hair, not a lot of pizzazz and who prefers men’s clothing.