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Contents:
- LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS
- LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
- WHAT’S NEXT FOR THE GREAT GAY PLAY? EVERYTHG.
LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS
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[…] In 2018, The Boys the Band ma s Broadway but at the Booth Theatre an unprecented productn featurg a st of entirely out-and-proud gay actors. Ranked lower on the human sle than Jews, the men as avowed homosexuals, flee. Dperate and on the n, Max asks his own ‘discreetly’ homosexual Uncle Freddie for help as the olr man offers ltle more than suggtns on how to live, as he do, practicg homosexualy on the si.
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LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
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[…] The Normal Heart follows Ned Weeks, a gay activist enraged at the difference of public officials and the gay muny. Sce his work was classified top secret for years after the war, no one knew how much was owed to him when he was put on trial for breakg another the taboo agast homosexualy.
Turg, who was also the first to nceive of puters, was nvicted of the crimal act of homosexualy and sentenced to unrgo hormone treatments which left him physilly and mentally bilated. “In the first part of Tony Khner’s epic, set 1980’s New York Cy, a gay man is abandoned by his lover when he ntracts the AIDS vis, and a closeted Mormon lawyer’s marriage to his pill-poppg wife stalls.
WHAT’S NEXT FOR THE GREAT GAY PLAY? EVERYTHG.
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“‘Temperamental’ was for ‘homosexual’ the early 1950s, part of a created language of secret words that gay men ed to munite.
The Temperamentals tells the story of two men—the munist Harry Hay and the Vienne refugee and signer Rudi Gernreich—as they fall love while buildg the first gay rights anizatn the pre-Stonewall Uned Stat.” – Dramatists Play Service.
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A headler lled “the nance”—ually played by a straight man—was a stereotypilly mp homosexual and master of ic double entendre. At a time when was easy to play gay and dangero to be gay, Chncey’s uproar antics on the stage stand out marked ntrast to his offstage life.” – Dramatists Play Service. There’s jt one problem: Both Bob and Norma are gay, and have married each other’s partners as a refully nstcted ver.
Inspired by the te story of the earlit stirrgs of the Amerin gay rights movement, madp classic s-style lghs give way to provotive drama as two “All-Amerin” upl are forced to stare down the closet door.” – Samuel French. ” Des after the AIDS epimic, three generatns of gay men grapple wh the tragedy of their past and what means for their future. "Navratilova, a trailblazer for gay rights, tweeted a one-word rponse: "Yik...
The Tony awards have always been a gay affair, plete wh out hosts like Neil Patrick Harris and wners like David Hy Pierce famoly thankg their partners at the podium. The story revolv around a group of gay iends g together for a iend's birthday party Manhattan, and ends wh stori about long-lost lovers, and one character g out to his wife. Created by out playwright John Cameron Mchell, Hedwig spired a feature film and a Broadway revival, wh gay actors like Neil Patrick Harris and Andrew Rannells takg on the Home This crilly-acclaimed Broadway mil was adapted by Lisa Kron and Jeane Tori om Alison Bechl's 2006 graphic memoir of the same name.