Beane's hero here is a "nance" a show business term for a stereotypically camp homosexual man who is struggling both with his own identity and frustration at society's hypocrisy toward homosexuality amid the dying days of burlesque, which had to follow its own strictrules and patterns pasties and G-strings on the girls or its performers also risked official condemnation.
Don't forget what's key to bringing back jobs here is not just finding someone else to punish -- and I'm going to be strict with people who we trade with to make sure they follow the law and play by the rules -- but it's also to make America the most attractive place in the world for businesses of all kinds.