{"id":1115,"date":"2022-11-17T20:29:20","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T01:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/?p=1115"},"modified":"2022-11-17T20:29:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T01:29:20","slug":"angels-of-montero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/2022\/11\/17\/angels-of-montero\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels of Montero"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Tony Kushner’s Angels of America <\/i>along with the rapper Lil Nas X\u2019s music video for the song \u201cMontero\u201d there is an elaborate use of camp that connects them. There are two similar moments that share related themes in Angels of America<\/i> it is in Act. 5 of \u201cPerestroika\u201d between the characters The Angel and Hannah Porter Pitt who is a Mormon woman. With Kushner’s elaborate stage directions he is able to convey exactly what goes on between them, \u201cHannah walks toward her, torn between immense unfamiliar desire and fear […] The Angel kisses her […] Hannah then has an enormous orgasm\u201d (Kushner 261). In this scene, there is an exaggerated use of sexuality with the imagery that Kusher evokes of an angel having the ability to give a character an orgasm. This same type of flamboyant sexuality and the elaborate use of camp is something that is also implemented by Lil Nas X\u2019s \u201cMontero.\u201d One moment in the music video that has a clear relation to the aforementioned scene in Angels of America<\/i> is depicted after Lil Nas X\u2019s character is mounted by a figure who is supposed to represent a devil. This is shown when Lil Nas X sings, \u201cCall me by your name,\u201d This lyric is a reference to the gay novel by the author Andr\u00e9 Aciman where two male lovers spend a summer together in Italy. So the overt sexual moment is underscored by this sentimental saying from one fictional man to another.<\/p>\n

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Montero had a lot of controversy because of its references to religion and Lil Nas X responded on twitter with the following remark, \u201cy\u2019all love saying we going to hell but get upset when I actually go there lmao\u201d (Lil Nas X). Although what he says here is meant to be humorous there is a serious undercurrent to this and the moment in the music video which is the true nature of homophobia. In the same way that Angels in America<\/i> uses the seriousness and parody of camp to combat a view of religious homophobia Lil Nas X plays into the fantasy that has been common for homophobic people to come up with. I believe that representations like these that use camp as a significant element are important because they show a unique portrayal of queer people that helps to flesh out the different types of stories that can be told about them. Both of these examples have fun with the extremes they go to while also having an intentional seriousness in responding to queer related issues of AIDS and homophobia which evokes the true meaning of camp.<\/p>\n

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In Tony Kushner’s Angels of America along with the rapper Lil Nas X\u2019s music video for the song \u201cMontero\u201d there is an elaborate use of camp that connects them. There are two similar moments that share related themes in Angels of America it is in Act. 5 of \u201cPerestroika\u201d between the characters The Angel and … Continue reading Angels of Montero<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5013,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[344620],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-2022"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}