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* In ''The Pink Unicorn'', the main character's child is genderqueer and says "I'm not a girl. Or anyway, I'm not all girl. I'm a boy, too."<ref name="pinkunicorn">{{Cite web |title=Review: 'The Pink Unicorn' Leads a Mother Into Unknown Territory |last=Vincentelli |first=By Elisabeth |work=New York Times |date=19 May 2019 |access-date=2 March 2021 |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/19/theater/the-pink-unicorn-alice-ripley-review.html}}</ref> | * In ''The Pink Unicorn'', the main character's child is genderqueer and says "I'm not a girl. Or anyway, I'm not all girl. I'm a boy, too."<ref name="pinkunicorn">{{Cite web |title=Review: 'The Pink Unicorn' Leads a Mother Into Unknown Territory |last=Vincentelli |first=By Elisabeth |work=New York Times |date=19 May 2019 |access-date=2 March 2021 |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/19/theater/the-pink-unicorn-alice-ripley-review.html}}</ref> | ||
* When the musical ''Jagged Little Pill'' originally played at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the character Jo was clearly nonbinary. Their gender identity was important to the plot, and Jo being nonbinary had been confirmed in social media posts by Jo's actor (Lauren Patten, a cis woman). However, when ''Jagged Little Pill'' came to Broadway, Jo was rewritten to be a cis woman, and all mentions of [[gender identity]] as a theme of the musical were removed from publicity materials. Patten deleted her prior social media posts, and even stated falsely in an interview "Jo never was written as anything other than cis." As an additional note, Patten's understudy [[Iris Menas]] is nonbinary and played Jo for one night on Broadway.<ref name="JLP">{{Cite web |title=One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Broadway's Jagged Little Journey Toward Nonbinary Inclusion |last=Lewis |first=Christian |work=The Brooklyn Rail |date=April 2021 |access-date=12 April 2021 |url= https://brooklynrail.org/2021/04/theater/One-Step-Forward-Two-Steps-Back-Broadways-Jagged-Little-Journey-Toward-Nonbinary-Inclusion}}</ref> | * When the musical ''Jagged Little Pill'' originally played at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the character Jo was clearly nonbinary. Their gender identity was important to the plot, and Jo being nonbinary had been confirmed in social media posts by Jo's actor (Lauren Patten, a cis woman). However, when ''Jagged Little Pill'' came to Broadway, Jo was rewritten to be a cis woman, and all mentions of [[gender identity]] as a theme of the musical were removed from publicity materials. Patten deleted her prior social media posts, and even stated falsely in an interview "Jo never was written as anything other than cis." As an additional note, Patten's understudy [[Iris Menas]] is nonbinary and played Jo for one night on Broadway.<ref name="JLP">{{Cite web |title=One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Broadway's Jagged Little Journey Toward Nonbinary Inclusion |last=Lewis |first=Christian |work=The Brooklyn Rail |date=April 2021 |access-date=12 April 2021 |url= https://brooklynrail.org/2021/04/theater/One-Step-Forward-Two-Steps-Back-Broadways-Jagged-Little-Journey-Toward-Nonbinary-Inclusion}}</ref> | ||
** In September 2021, the lead producers of ''Jagged Little Pill'' put out a long apology statement, which read in part: | |||
{{quote|In Jo, we set out to portray a character on a [[gender expansive]] journey without a known outcome. Throughout the creative process, as the character evolved and changed, between Boston & Broadway, we made mistakes in how we handled this evolution. In a process designed to clarify and streamline, many of the lines that signaled Jo as [[gender non-conforming]], and with them, something vital and integral, got removed from Jo’s character journey. | |||
Compounding our mistake, we then stated publicly and categorically that Jo was never written or conceived as non-binary. That discounted and dismissed what people saw and felt in this character’s journey. We should not have done that. | |||
We should have, instead, engaged in an open discussion about nuance and gender spectrum. | |||
We should have protected and celebrated the fact that the non-binary audience members saw in Jo a bold, defiant, complex, and vibrant representation of their community. | |||
For all of this we are deeply sorry.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Actor Lauren Patten Speaks Out On Broadway’s ‘Jagged Little Pill’ Controversy & Reveals Her Future With The Show As Producers Apologize For Erasing A Nonbinary Character – Update |last=Evans |first=Greg |work=Deadline |date=18 September 2021 |access-date=19 September 2021 |url= https://deadline.com/2021/09/jagged-little-pill-broadway-producers-nonbinary-erasure-lauren-patten-1234839144/}}</ref>}} | |||
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