While some of those gay and racial slurs were hard to speak, Jim Parsons and the cast believe it was necessary to use words now considered unspeakable to both honour Crowley’s dialogue, as well as make the audience feel the discomfort of the marginalization of the gay community at the time. Crowley’s story follows a group of men and takes place a year before the historic Stonewall riots in New York’s Greenwich Village neighbourhood that solidified the gay liberation movement.