Best Of: Singer Anthony Roth Costanzo / Leaving The Westboro Baptist Church

Best Of: Singer Anthony Roth Costanzo / Leaving The Westboro Baptist Church

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Anthony Roth Costanzo is a countertenor, meaning he sings in a high range that’s associated with women’s voices. He knows all about the history of countertenors and their predecessors, castrati. He’s about to star in the Metropolitan Opera’s production of ‘Akhnaten,’ by Philip Glass. Costanzo plays the titular Pharaoh, who many people now think was gender fluid.

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Growing up in the notorious Westboro Baptist Church, Megan Phelps-Roper was told that God killed soldiers as punishment for America’s sins and its tolerance of homosexuality. She started to question her beliefs after she began running the church’s Twitter account. Her memoir about her decision to leave the church is ‘Unfollow.‘