Back when we first started Culture Clash there was a lot of gay bashing. There were a lot of lesbians moving into Valencia, and I remember Latinos were not very happy about that. I think the last couple of moments in the play really illustrate our ambivalence about that change. The developers will never fully wipe us out. But also, as the two women in the play echo, the Mission is revolutionary still.
People vote in the Mission differently than they do in other parts of the city.
Somebody told me that they'd never seen a Rodney Burke character from Culture Clash. I'm very proud of that in Herbert's Rodrigo piece. Now, front and center, no question about it, we have men being tender, and also we're being queer radical. We're creating our own history, and that's very important, because the historians are not going to do it. And the academics are not going to do it.