In the novel, Kate creates a performance piece - an installation goes up in flames - which causes a full-scale riot. In "Rent," a friend's death from AIDS - attended by Maureen and Joanne, among others - confirms the group's belief in love. In "People in Trouble," Molly and Kate attend to a gay male activist friend as he lay dying from AIDS, which inspires them to fight for their beliefs - including the right of people to food and shelter. In "Rent," the group of friends, including Joanne, the lawyer, and Maureen, the artist, organize against a landlord who's trying to evict poor people, artists, and people with AIDS. In the novel, Molly, the lesbian, and Kate, the artist, become involved with an AIDS activist group that targets a greedy landlord trying to evict poor people, artists and people with AIDS. Also in both works, the male lover and the lesbian interloper meet by accident and end up liking each other and chatting about their common lover. In both the show and the novel, there's a heterosexual coupling that's ruptured when the woman artist has an affair with a lesbian social activist. Both Larson and Schulman's characters are surrounded by homeless street vendors and junkies, and are in constant danger of having nowhere to go. Both "Rent" and "People in Trouble" share the same milieu: an apocalyptic New York in which artists and poor people, at the mercy of ever-more-greedy real estate developers, are being driven out of their homes.
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