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'''Rent''' is a fee paid periodically to a landowner for providing land to another for a certain amount of [[time]], or in economics, "the excess of the produce or return yielded by a given piece of cultivated [[land]] over the cost of production; the yield from a piece of land or [[real estate]]."<ref>{{cite web|work=Dictionary.com|url=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Rent|title=rent|format=HTML|language=English|accessdate=2007-09-30|quote=a payment made periodically by a tenant to a landlord in return for the use of land, a building, an apartment, an office, or other property." & "Economics. the excess of the produce or return yielded by a given piece of cultivated land over the cost of production; the yield from a piece of land or real estate."}}</ref>

'''Rent''' is a fee paid periodically to a landowner for providing land to another for a certain amount of [[time]], or in economics, "the excess of the produce or return yielded by a given piece of cultivated [[land]] over the cost of production; the yield from a piece of land or [[real estate]]."<ref>{{cite web|work=Dictionary.com|url=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Rent|title=rent|format=HTML|language=English|accessdate=2007-09-30|quote=a payment made periodically by a tenant to a landlord in return for the use of land, a building, an apartment, an office, or other property." & "Economics. the excess of the produce or return yielded by a given piece of cultivated land over the cost of production; the yield from a piece of land or real estate."}}</ref>

'''''Rent''''' is also the title of a [[musical]] play and movie about bohemians living in [[New York]] in an unspecified time period (although the movie suggests the early 1990s). A student version of the musical has been released for high school [[drama]] clubs to perform. Though some sexual content and drug use had been partially removed (most notably the removal of a sexually explicit song), it was insufficient to meet some [[community standards]] of decency. "Administrators or parents raised objections about the show's morality, its portrayals of [[homosexuality]] and [[theft]], and its frank discussions of drug use and [[HIV]]" and performances of the musical have been cancelled at high schools in California, Texas and West Virginia.<ref name=musical>[http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/feb/20/1n20rent004712-stage-set-controversy-when-schools-/?zIndex=55812 Stage Set for Controversy When Schools Put on 'Rent'] San Diego Union-Tribune, February 20, 2009.</ref> The play generally glosses over the homosexual lifestyle (most of the characters are homosexual), and despite a serious AIDS pandemic (four of the main characters is infected), the play somewhat perplexingly tries to glorify intercourse outside of marriage (one song urges the characters to forget the consequences of sex, because there is "no day but today").

'''''Rent''''' is also the title of a [[musical]] play and movie about bohemians living in [[New York]] in an unspecified time period (although the movie suggests the early 1990s). A student version of the musical has been released for high school [[drama]] clubs to perform. Though some sexual content and drug use had been partially removed (most notably the removal of a sexually explicit song), it was insufficient to meet some [[community standards]] of decency. "Administrators or parents raised objections about the show's morality, its portrayals of [[homosexuality]] and [[theft]], and its frank discussions of drug use and [[HIV]]" and performances of the musical have been canceled at high schools in California, Texas and West Virginia.<ref name=musical>[http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/feb/20/1n20rent004712-stage-set-controversy-when-schools-/?zIndex=55812 Stage Set for Controversy When Schools Put on 'Rent'] San Diego Union-Tribune, February 20, 2009.</ref> The play generally glosses over the homosexual lifestyle (most of the characters are homosexual), and despite a serious AIDS pandemic (four of the main characters is infected), the play somewhat perplexingly tries to glorify intercourse outside of marriage (one song urges the characters to forget the consequences of sex, because there is "no day but today").

{{cquote|Ron Martin, the theater teacher and director at Corona del Mar High School in Orange County, found out how controversial ''Rent'' can be. It was canceled after he chose the student version for the spring musical, hoping it would counter what he saw as creeping homophobia on campus... "This is the first time I've chosen a show for the high school because I had an agenda," Martin said. "In this instance, having an agenda as a teacher didn't give me pause."<ref name=musical/>}}

{{cquote|Ron Martin, the theater teacher and director at Corona del Mar High School in Orange County, found out how controversial ''Rent'' can be. It was canceled after he chose the student version for the spring musical, hoping it would counter what he saw as creeping homophobia on campus... "This is the first time I've chosen a show for the high school because I had an agenda," Martin said. "In this instance, having an agenda as a teacher didn't give me pause."<ref name=musical/>}}