I don't know how many people realised just how influential the Rocky Horror Picture Show and Tim Curry were, if you were not straight.
For the first time, you saw characters on a movie, who were not just obviously not straight, they made the straight normal characters feel odd. The difference was REVELLED in, not something that was explained away, or used as a plot point to justify them being the villain. The difference was what the story was built on. It suggested that there were places were being straight was not normal, where your feelings could be considered normal.
These days we look at the show and think ""some of the views expressed here are problematic, and especially the language" - but then you need to remember, the stage show is old. It opened on stage in 1973 (the year The Sting, The Exorcist, and American Graffiti were released in cinemas), and yes, it is inevitably of its time. But it also enabled people to see themselves on the big screen, and feel for a moment, that they were the normal ones, and the ones around them were the squares and boring (like Brad and Janet, who in any other movie would have been the heroes)
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