“I don't want to start a riot
I don't want to blaze a trail
I don't want to be a symbol
Or cautionary tale
I don't want to be a scapegoat
For people to oppose
What I want is simple
As far as wanting goes
I just wanna dance with you” (Dance With You/The Prom/Chad Bequelin) ……….
Two girls, in high school, sharing a wonderful crush on one another only wanting to go to their Prom, and dance with one another. On a Broadway stage, how mesmerizing, how magical, and as with most Broadway Musicals, the girls dance, and swoon and kiss. I have always LOVED musicals because, with musicals, the kind of real life of wonder and awe, music and dance, rhythm and rhyme happens, and happens with great applause, and sometimes standing ovations.
“Let the whole world melt away
And dance with you
Who cares what other people say?
And when we're through
No one can convince us we were wrong
All it takes is you and me
And a song” (Dance With You/The Prom/Chad Bequelin)……….
On the stage of Real Life, if these girls lived in Florida, and now Texas, and soon way too many Christian Nationalist States of America, they would most likely be taken away from their families, their families put in jail, their teachers fired and of course threatened with prison time also. From the LGBQ community and now in particular the Transgender Community, it seems the Republican Party has fashioned these groups of American citizens as ENEMY NUMBER ONE. I am a Gay man, among the many traits and attributes I was born with, and I am SICK AND TIRED of the insecure, ignorant, inept idiots who act superior, only, as I have learned in my 73 years of life because they know how inferior they are INDEED!
