Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) dir. John Cameron Mitchell

Ik I have reblogged a lot of stuff about this but, I will scream this from the roof tops! LET QUEER CHARACTERS BE COMPLEX! All humans are complex including queer people, woah shocker :0. Demonizing or rejecting complex queer characters who do complex things is absolutely insane to me. Let queer characters be messy and bad people who need to grow, we need a balance. Having all queer characters be perfect just makes them feel like a cardboard cut out. Like for example is Hedwig a bad person? yes! That is what the film is about, perpetuated cycles of abuse of power and being taken advantage of. But by the end of the film she grows, and makes a change, even if it’s something is minuscule as giving Yitzak her wig and letting them be themselves. This is after Hedwig previously uses the power they have over Yitzak to stop them from wearing wigs and performing drag, something which Yitzak is passionate about, as an ultimatum for their marriage. She has the ability to after the film, keep growing and stop the cycles. And that’s just one example! Anyway, I know this was long, but in conclusion, let queer characters be complex and messy and make mistakes and be bad people. Not every queer person is perfect. Nobody is so let your characters have room to be messy or a bad person and grow from those experiences and choices.

Some other great examples of complex queer characters of the top of my head:

- really any character from Falsettos

- Frank-n-Furter from Rock Horror

- PJ and Josie from Bottoms

- all of the characters from The Boys in the Band

I could elaborate on each one of them but, then this post would be an essay and ik none of y’all want to read all that.

"Jon was a theatre kid" this "Jon was alt in uni" that. Imma squish em together and hc that Jon was in a production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

Beyond the Fame with Jason Fraley (November 29, 2023)

WTOP Entertainment Reporter Jason Fraley interviews Darren Criss, who performs live tomorrow night at the National Christmas Tree Lighting on The Ellipse outside the White House before bringing “A Very Darren Crissmas” to Wolf Trap in Vienna, Virginia on Saturday and Sunday. They discuss his career from his breakthrough role in “Glee” to his Emmy-winning role in “American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace.” (Theme Music: Scott Buckley’s “Clarion”)

i am literally fucking obsessed with her you have no idea

recent art (andrew rannells and christian borle as always).

Hedwig Robinson from Hedwig and the Angry Inch has BPD!

you guys ever watch a movie that just pries open your chest hollows you out into a shell of yourself scrapes your insides clean and then puts you back together piece by piece into a whole new version of yourself that just feels raw. or is that just me

Michael Pitt as Tommy Gnosis Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) dir. John Cameron Mitchell

MAYBE THERES NOTHING UP IN THE SKY BUT AIIRRR!!! AND THERES NOT MYSTICAL DESIGN!! NO COSMIC LOVER PREASSIGNED! THERE’S NOTHING THAT YOU CAN FIND, THAT CANOT BE FOUND!!!!!!!

can you do an hedwig and the angry inch stimboaed

Hedwig and the Angry Inch for anon 🎤|💄|🎤 💄|🎤|💄 🎤|💄|🎤

Would y’all watch a video essay about the Hedwick and the Angry Inch episode of Riverdale?

hedwig would drink so much redbull she would start roblox lagging irl