Metro Weekly Magazine: Print Edition for Oct. 10, 2019
By Randy Shulman
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October 10, 2019
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Arts & Entertainment
Arena Stage: We Are Gathered
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Celebration
Bethesda Fine Arts Festival
GALA Hispanic Theatre: CHOKE
Kennedy Center: The NSO
Special Events
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Celebration
At this point, Hedwig and the Angry Inch has stood nearly as long as the Berlin Wall stood dividing East and West, repression and freedom. After 28 years -- long years for Germans on either side of the Wall, yet relatively brief in human history -- they tore down that blunt, brutal symbol of post-war Communist control.
It's been about 28 years since Hedwig Robinson, a fictional trans woman rock 'n 'roller from East Berlin, first came screaming onto stage in this Off-Broadway musical, with text by John Cameron Mitchell and music and lyrics by Stephen Trask, and, despite all the hate and division still roiling this world, that glorious bitch is still rocking.
The Walt Disney Company overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to cut ties with the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest LGBTQ advocacy organization.
The proposal, submitted to Disney's shareholders by the right-wing National Center for Public Policy Research's Free Enterprise Project, demanded that the company "cease" its participation in HRC's Corporate Equality Index (CEI).
The CEI rates companies on how LGBTQ-friendly or -affirming their employment or employee benefits policies are.
NCPPR's proposal argued that Disney's involvement with the CEI has alienated conservatives, hurting the company's brand by aligning itself with the LGBTQ community, having pro-LGBTQ workplace policies, and damaging the company's stock price.
