Gays Upset Over Travolta's role in "HairSpray"

Tired weirdo John Travolta ill-cast as Edna Turnblad in "Hairspray"

The editor of a major gay publication in the US claims to have attracted the ire of the "church" of Scientology after calling for a boycott of the musical Hairspray remake starring John Travolta.

Kevin Naff, editor of the Washington Blade, claims gay Scientoligists have attacked him for stating in a blog on the remake of the John Waters classic that Travolta had "no business reprising an iconic gay role, given his cult's stance on gay issues".

Scientology has frequently been accused of hostility towards GLBT people and trying to "cure" homosexuality through reparative therapy.

Scientology's founder, L Ron Hubbard wrote in wrote in his 1951 book Science of Survival: Prediction of Human Behavior that, "Such people should be taken from the society as rapidly as possible… for here is the level of the contagion of immortality and the destruction of ethics. No social order will survive which does not remove these people from its midst."

Travolta is a prominent member of Scientology, which also boasts Tom Cruise, Kirstie Alley, Lisa Maria Presley and Kelly Preston in its celebrity stable.

The remake of Hairspray is based on the hugely successful Broadway musical adaptation.
The original Waters film starred the late Divine in the role of Edna Turnblad, reprised by Travolta, and launched the career of Rikki Lake, who played daughter Tracy Turnblad.

Editor's Note: The hubbub about Travolta playing Edna Turnblad is emblematic with the problem we all face with gays in this country--you've become full of yourselves and far too serious. John Travolta is an actor. People act in movies. If you don't understand this basic priniciple about movies and plays and tv shows, you'll be lost. One does not need to be gay to play gay and one doesn't need to embrace the sexuality known as homosexuality. Remember this is a sex act first and a culture secondarily. Travolta is ACTING and not trying to live as a gay person. To go a step deeper, when one remakes a play or movie, you don't have to by law do it the same way it was done the first time. Soooooooo, Travolta albeit ill-cast, is a bad actor in a bad movie playing a bad drag queenish looking mother. The first mistake here, re-making the freaking play which was based on the first film. This reeks of unoriginality which is what everyone should be angry about.