optimysticals:

legally-bitchtastic:

sluttyalfred:

nobody talks about rent enough

“modern media doesnt diversify gays enough. they’re all white m-”

“yeah but what about lesbia-”

“how about interracial couples-”

“what about transgender-”

(you could also argue that she’s nonbinary, as mimi also quotes her saying that she called herself “more than a man than you’ll ever be, and more a woman than you’ll ever get”)

“what about bisexua-”

(anthony rapp, who plays mark, is bisexual too)

4/7 of the main cast are PoC and 4/7 also have AIDS

not to mention this movie is a MUSICAL I MEAN rip jonathan larson

IN CONCLUSION rent is a very important movie/musical

Ok, no, you guys do not understand how important it was for RENT to feature LGBT people, sex workers and addicts living with HIV/AIDS in 1993. In 93, AIDS was only just beginning to be recognized and was still heavily stigmatized. Many people believed that it was a “dirty” disease that only affected degenerate people. Some even believed that it was a sent by God to dole out punishment to sinners. For RENT to not only tell the story of AIDS victims, but “undesireable” AIDS victims was unbelievably brave and important.

And there is so much LGBT/AIDS history that we have lost (because they don’t teach it) that is kept alive in RENT.

Things like the landlords turning off the heat because it would speed up the death of AIDS tenants and they could then bring in higher paying tenants and businesses.