The Future Of Our Nation: Broadway Play Kinky Boots

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The Future of Our Nation: A few weeks ago I went to the Morrison Center to see the broadway play Kinky Boots. The critically acclaimed musical tells the tale of Charlie Price who takes over his dad’s shoe making business after his unexpected death. Charlie has no passion for shoe making, but reluctantly steps into his father’s shoes. The company, Price and Son, begins to fall under when their number one buyer decides to buy from a shoe factory with more on trend styles. Just when Charlie wants to give up and call it quits he meets Lola, a fabulous drag queen. The unlikely pair decides to go into business together to start making heeled boots for the men who perform as drag queens. The men in the factory are skeptical and critical of Lola at first. They can’t see the bravery she has in being herself. Overall the story was all about acceptance of others, being yourself, and pursuing your passions. The atmosphere of the crowd was amazing. …show more content…

It’s no secret that our generation has made leaps and bounds for the LGBTQ community, with the legalization of gay marriage to the open conversations in the media about being transgender. Being at that play changed my perception of the older population. I realized that maybe they are more accepting than their stereotype reads. Especially the generation in their 60’s- 70’s, because there I witnessed them cheering Lola on. Often I feel the responsibility has been put on the younger generation to make changes to our society to incorporate and accept every type of person.The reason older people are seeing Kinky Boots, or any other form of progressive media, or art is due to the work of our society’s youth. Looking back and moving into the future we can see that in American society social movement or reform is facilitated by the younger

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