Wasn’t sure I could get away with placing this in the classical music section so I’ve dumped it here. I confess I was what could be described as an opera queen in my youth. We’d even have weekends where we played the entire Wagner Ring Cycle over a weekend. Couldn’t put myself through that in my dotage and in fact now find most of Wagner’s opera overblown, long winded and hysterical.

Anyhow, here’s an article I stumbled across that discusses the apparently now out of fashion phenomena of the ‘Opera Queen’.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cu...e-of-gay-opera

Omg, this is not good at all. It seems the writers spent most of their time thinking about how to include every part of the rainbow instead of the actual storyline, which for some reason decided to focus on a very serious event (a mass shooting) although neither the writers nor the actors are even close to having the chops to do it justice. This kind of show should be stupid and fun. Even the soundtrack is aggressively on the nose and overbearing.

What a missed opportunity. :/

An aspect of the various versions of Queer as Folk that’s always annoyed me is the almost complete avoidance of the many males who indulge in same sex relations in total secrecy, most of them married to females of our species. Not that many of this category would willingly admit to being bi-sexual, let alone gay just like many millions of men over the ages who during wartime have ‘had a bit on the side’ .
http://www.smh.com.au/national/a-sec...220-2bp9m.html

Why do you talk like this?

I figured you were going for zoophile visibility.

I'm of a generation less likely to murder you.

We rule, you suck, get over it.

Look if you regularly refer to women as "females" just don't get mad if I constantly make Ferengi jokes at your expense.