Jocks Walks Out of Musical Over Gay Kiss

[meegbear]

The musical Zanna, Don't! is about a high school where all the smart kids are more popular than the dumb kids, being gay is the norm, and being straight is abnormal. In one scene, two guys briefly smooch. Big deal, right?

Apparently it was for some of the kids who caught a recent performance of the musical at Hartford Public High School in Hartford, Connecticut, because they walked out of the theater. As one of the school's principals told CBS Connecticut:

There was a public walkout by a bunch of students (when the kiss happened) … mostly male ...It was visually evident (due to the jerseys the team was wearing) that a lot of football players got up and walked out. It was almost a symbolic kind of thing."

The school has resisted calls by parents to remove the kiss scene from performances of the musical, which is being presented as part of an anti-bullying initiative at the school. If the football players at Hartford PHS are anything like the ones we went to school with, then they're the audience members who had the most to learn from such a program.

http://gawker.com/5851223/jocks-walks-out-of-musical-over-gay-kiss

[ejpoeta]

1. that's funny because football players touch each other's butts. should people walk out

because of that. it seems perfectly ok for that.... maybe some of those football players has some personal issues to work out. I wonder also if they knew about this already and planned this ahead of time. I am glad the school isn't bowing to pressure. It kind of proves the point of anti bullying play in the first place the way people are acting about it.

[WillParkinson]

2. Silly you...

Butt touching is completely normal. At least they're not kissing after one of them makes a good play.

[seabeyond]

3. are you kidding? touch butt, head butt, hug, cry all over each other.

i have such a hoot during footie footie football season pointing it out to hubby.

look, they are hugging....

[Enrique]

4. and the one guy bends over

and the other guy stands right behind him. Not that there's anything wrong with that...

[seabeyond]

10. i only tease because of the contnued homophobia presenting the absurdity....

and conditioned "manliness". otherwise, i think sweet, lol

[xchrom]

5. poor squeamish dears...

:eyes:

[KurtNYC]

6. You know why football helmets have bars across the front ?

A: To keep them from kissing each other during the game.

[ejpoeta]

7. lol

[Renew Deal]

8. lol

:rofl:

[shireen]

9. the school did good

I'm glad they resisted pressure from the parents.

As far as the football players are concerned, i wonder how many of them were pressured into the walkout. Sometimes, all it takes are one or two strong personalities in the team to lead it.

[Shagbark Hickory]

16. The ol' "If so-and-so walks off a bridge, are you going to follow them?" applies.

[Odin2005]

11. I fucking hate jocks.

[rurallib]

12. maybe the kiss got them all excited

and they were hurrying out to get the party going?

[whathehell]

13. Dream on, bro.

[Shagbark Hickory]

14. I'm guessing they all head "straight" for the locker room.

:+

[Shagbark Hickory]

15. That's ok, I'd walk out of their snoozeball games.

Due to extreme boredom.