The Engagement: America s Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage
Pride Month is a celebration especially this year, after 2020 cancelling so many celebrations around the country but it s also a reminder of the struggle for basic rights for queer people. And while the Stonewall uprising of June 1969 has made the month a center of attention for LGBTQ equality, that struggle has continued in the 50 years since to include a wide range of issues, up to and including the current assault on transgender rights at the state level.
One of the crucial battlegrounds in that struggle was the fight for marriage equality, one that culminated in the 2015
Art & Class, the latest production in Plan-B Theatre’s entirely virtual season, is based on the kind of news story that makes a lot of us shake our heads and scream “not
all Utahns!” In 2017, an elementary school teacher in Hyrum shared artwork with his sixth grade class that contained nudity. (You know, like pretty much any art museum on Earth.) The teacher was accused of being a child pornographer, the police were called, and he was fired faster than you can declare porn a public health crisis.
An Allegory with Venus and Cupid by Bronzino (about 1545)
inspires a Utah-sized culture war in Plan-B Theatre’s Art & Class
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