Those are all valid issues to take with any project. It’s not just the expected backlash from conservatives and homophobes, but attacks from within the LGBT community from people who are frustrated that the characters might not represent a kind of queerness they identify with, a diversity that reflects reality, or falls into traps like relying on the trauma of a coming-out narrative or being too chaste, a compromise often made to be more “palatable.”
I would never take any of that back, especially after observing how, in recent years, each of those projects would be met with an equally passionate and impressively vocal-think, in this case, Jennifer Hudson unhinging her jaw to belt out the final riffs of “And I am Telling You I’m Not Going”-criticism.
