The film's director Joe Mantello on his starry adaptatn of the inic gay text.
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WH AN ENTIRE ST OF OPENLY GAY ACTORS, THE BOYS THE BAND ARE BACK — AND ON NETFLIX
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Arts·QueeriThe film's director Joe Mantello on his starry adaptatn of the inic gay film's director Joe Mantello on his starry adaptatn of the inic gay textBack Row: Rob De J, Michael Benjam Washgton, Matt Bomer, Jim Parsons, Zachary Quto, Charlie Carver, Tuc Watks, Andrew Rannells, Brian Hutchison Front: Joe Mantello, Mart Crowley. In both s rnatns as a 1968 off-Broadway play and 1970 film, Mart Crowley's The Boys the Band is an exceptnally pneerg gay text. Featurg ne gay characters who meet (and unravel) at an apartment to celebrate one of their birthdays, was one of the first reprentatns of gay life to get any sort of mastream attentn.
As part of Netflix's al wh the gay reprentatn mache that is Ryan Murphy, and followg s 2018 revival on Broadway, The Boys the Band buts on the streamer September 30th.
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And somethg that shouldn't seem novel or remarkable, all of the men I jt mentned are openly gay themselv. " Mantello says that for younger gay viewers g to the text for the first time, he thks 's important that The Boys The Band teach them "where we me om and how thgs have evolved. Where I found that an olr generatn, particularly of gay men — aga, not scientific, but — have real issu wh .
And Crowley's ath (on March 7th) was followed by two other goliaths among gay men: Terrence McNally (on March 24th) and Larry Kramer (on May 27th).
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Jutra himself was gay, and would go on to make one of the masterpiec of Canadian cema, Mon oncle Antoe (1971). John Greyson is a hero of Canadian cema – Zero Patience (1993), his rto AIDS mil extravaganza, very narrowly missed the list, as did his glor gay tragedy Lili (1996). The homosexual subtext quietly simmers below the surface, culmatg a vlent nontatn between the two men.