@Eleanor Quinn-Gibney Actually Angel was NOT trans (and P.S. you say "a
transgender person" not "a transgender.") Angel doesn't live his life as a
woman and he's referred to, in-script, as "he" unless he's in drag. Which
points to him being a drag queen, not a trans woman. And I'm pretty sure
Collins is described as being gay at some point in the show too.
I've heard it explained as thus: Angel is genderqueer. After all, Angel has
no problem with male OR female pronouns, and dresses both like a man (on
the street when we first see Angel) and like a woman (most of Angel's
interactions with the cast). So I think maybe Angel dresses like that
because Angel likes the clothing.
I love this song. Favorite line "to anything taboo" XD I mean, as a yaoi
fangirl who likes Twincest, and shota-con, and Uchihacest, and...pretty
much anything that can be yaoi related, that line is...*shakes head* This
song is one of the main reasons I love rent XD
lmao.. I have headphone and started singing along to this and my boyfriend
and his best friend just stopped what they were doing and just stared at me
when I sang along to the "mucho masturbation" part. The looks on their
faces were priceless.
@Jimbobman903 it's the Dies Irae ('day of wrath") prayer from some
Christian masses. The first stanza translates to "The day of wrath, that
day Will dissolve the world in ashes As foretold by David and the sibyl!"
On the last day of school we were playing our MP3 players over the
orchestra room speakers an I put this on and my teacher and some of my
friend sang along...Best memory of the school year.
I wish I could get a final answer to this, there is so much controversy
over this. I originally thought it was mucho but someone told me they read
the script and that it's mutual
@jasperluv1843 To Sontag, to Sondheim, to anything taboo. Ginsberg, Dylan,
Cunningham, and Cage. Lenny Bruce, Langston Hughes! To the stage! To Uta.
To Buddha. Pablo Neruda too.
@milanosrp uhhm, actually angel is a Trans woman. she's a woman. she's in a
relationship with a man. gay and asexual are the only orientations that she
can't be based on facts we have about her that are confirmed. she is likely
heterosexual.
+Lexi Burris Honestly, Jonathan never made it clear whether she was trans or just a gay man who loved drag. I personally always assumed Angel was a drag queen since in the musical, they pointed to her on the line "cross dressers too", she took off her wig during life support meetings, which I took as her taking off her presented self to be real and raw during these meetings, and because I doubt Collins would have misgendered the person he loves in death. Also, in the Broadway version, during the song You'll see Boys, Collins straight up tells Angel "I like boys", and Angel seems happy about it. Either way, the closest we can get to fully, %100 knowing is if we asked the original actor how he was told to portray Angel. Outside of that, it seems open to interpretation.
+Jared Winchester Angel isn't non binary. Just a girl sometimes misgendered. Drag queens are usually cis men (though any gender is possible) who perform dressed as exaggerated versions of women. They will change and get out of drag before leaving their performance space. But angel rarely ever took her wig off and never had exaggerated features. Trans people aren't the same as drag performers. Though I have seen a trans man become a drag queen and many more trabs masculine people become drag kings. But I think that's because drag queens show singing, makeup, etc and kings show different makeup (to look like facial hair) and dancing.Anyway irrelevant. It is very transphobic but the wiki dies say she's a trans woman in cis speak. It says on gender, biologically male (even though it's a useless and inaccurate term and what they mean is "amab" since they dann sure don't know all her chromosomes and hormones and stuff) but identifies as female (no. We don't "Identify as" just cause we're trans. We are out genders and don't need cis people to legitimize us. If Maureen is a woman and not "identifies as" so is angel. Js).Anyway transphobic or not I can't post links on you tube but the rent wiki will tell you. Just Google for it.
I know I'm late to join the discussion, but I feel like I should help straighten this out. Angel could be genderfluid or another nonbinary identity accepting both binary pronouns, or just a drag queen. Many drag queens take on she/her pronouns while in drag though that wouldn't explain the "brothers" part. Angel's gender is never stated, to my memory.
+Athena Smith yeah he slipped up. Our Transness Is based on cis people? Nah. I'm called she a lot but that doesn't make me one.Collins also called her "she" in today 4 you.And in I'll cover you. And throughout the show.And at her funeral Maureen gives am anecdote of her telling a skinhead that she's more of a man than he ever will be and more of a woman than he will ever get.And mimi was talking about tourists that has never seen a Trans person before. (Though I think she called her a drag queen, but honestly Trans women have always been called drag queens. People prefer giving visibility to cis gays appropriating our existance than us.)"Brothers"? You realize Maureen and Joanne aren't sisters right?And they also said "bisexual, transsexual, homosapiens". So by your logic angel is Trans and one or both are bisexual. Either way....
+Athena Smith no. Angel is a she. Everyone knows that. We (Trans peope) get misgendered all the time, but most of the time all the main characters properly gender her.
I felt like making lyric videos for RENT songs, starting with the La Vie Boheme parts A and B. Here is part B. Enjoy! :) DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN RENT.
I'm starting to make RENT lyric videos. A lot of fun, and a helpful way for my sister to learn the lyrics to this particular song. :) lol enjoy!! DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT ...
Thank you very much! Took me a while, and I would've made more but my video making thingy screwed up and then we got a new computer and dads all about getting all this new antivirus stuff and so therefore I have no video making program until then. sighs dramatically