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• GAY THEATRE: G OUT OR GOG BACK?
• GAY MOSW · CY GUI
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• MOSW GAY BARS
• MOSW GAY MAP
• LONDON GAY BARS

GAY THEATRE: G OUT OR GOG BACK?

Deeper and Deeper13 Sept - 7 Oct 2023A New Comedy Drama5 young gay men start sharg a Camn flat the late 90’s. Well known for s refully gay-themed programme wh shows such as Betiful Thg and Grdr: The Opera, this theatre has received awards and aclas wng Boyz Awards 2014, 2015 2016 and nner-up, Time Out Love London Awards 2018. ”Above the Stag was found 2008 above The Stag, a gay pub the old venue was molished, moved to Vxhall, where the railway arch were home to a 100-seat theatre, a 70-seat baret lounge and heated outdoor terrace theatre has said all ticket holrs wh future bookgs will be fully refund and all credors, staff and creativ owed money will be paid full.

Until 16 September 2023 Sleepg Bety Tak A Prick TicketsSleepg Bety Tak A Prick at Charg Cross Theatre 23 November 2023 to 13 January 2024 Strangers Between TicketsThe Goln Goose Theatre is revivg classic Atralian drama Strangers Between by Tommy Murphy, which looks at the highs and lows of growg up gay morn Atralia.

Okay, there are jt a few dited LGBTQ+ performance venu the cy, cludg gay theatre hubs Above the Stag, Royal Vxhall Tavern and the Kg's Head. Expect everythg om genre-smashg queer baret to lbian romance to gay theatre classics to exploratns of trans experience. I've been out as a gay man for about 15 years and have been workg as a theatre director for about the same amount of time.

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But this year I beme a gay theatre director wh two plays examg gay polics: The Act at Ovalhoe and the Natnal Youth Theatre's Tory Boyz the Wt End. Unsurprisgly, there is a large nstuency of directors and wrers who are gay, but currently very few people theatre wh the appete for chroniclg and explorg gay culture and gay theatre is at a crossroads. Recently there have been some excg iativ, such as the gay playwrg programme and ftival at Greenwich, the Above The Stag venue for gay theatre that reopens a new Vxhall home at Christmas, and of urse Ovalhoe, which has been champng queer voic for 50 the venu and pani, val though they are, replace other, often better fund pani and venu such as the Drill Hall, or Queer up North, who both lost their fundg a number of years ago, brgg to an end a long herage.

And why do we need even gay theatre, gay venu, gay plays the twenty-first century? It's been ls than 50 years sce the crimalisatn of male homosexual sex, and only the years leadg up to crimalisatn did the Lord Chamberla relax the l about the reprentatn of homosexualy on stage, so gay theatre (like all gay culture) is relatively young. Even after 1967 's hard to fd many gay voic wasn't until the AIDS epimic h that gay theatre found a voice; a need to speak out.

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Gay theatre wasn't jt chroniclg and chartg the epimic – was a form of mpaigng.

Hardly surprisg that when a large proportn of the New York theatre scene are gay, they are gog to e their biggt weapon, dramatic narrative, to fight for their liv. An Off-Broadway play like The Normal Heart short-circus policians, journalists and anyone else that might misreprent the wasn't jt overtly polil work reprentg the 1980s gay muny.

It may seem glib to mentn La Cage Aux Foll the same breath as The Normal Heart but arguably did as much, if not more for the reprentatn of the gay La Cage opened on Broadway 1983, the level of fear over the AIDS epimic was overwhelmg – people thought uld be ught om kissg, or om toilet seats, and many refed to see La Cage for fear of ntractg HIV. The show may seem a b mp now, and is, but anyone who don't realise the vlence behd mp has clearly never got on the wrong si of a drag the early 1990s, polil polemic was met by theatril ambn wh Angels In Ameri – a gay play, a state of the natn play, and one of the greatt piec of ntemporary Amerin drama. It addrsed the polics of AIDS wh a savage theatril poetry unheard of before or the 90s progrsed, however, there was a distct feelg that much of gay theatre was beg miserablist – tragic stori of unhappy dividuals.

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Almost 20 years after crimalisatn, the powerful msage still stood that a boy uld meet a boy and fall Betiful Thg was 20 years ago now so where do that leave gay theatre?

At the same time we were embarrassed for the nsumerist generatn g through behd – as Peter Gill once put , the "don't ask me about polics; I'm gay" the time I had started gog to Pri march, polil activism had been replaced by a qutnnaire askg me if I was more likely to buy a Ford Foc now that they'd sponsored Pri.

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It's no wonr that the juxtaposn between our herage and ntemporary culture has been a foc of much ntemporary gay wrg. The Pri, Mother Claps Molly Hoe, and Canary are all recent plays that juxtapose different perds to exame ntemporary gay 've started to ntextualise, and rerd our own history.

The Normal Heart is beg ma to a film, early gay plays such as Mart Sherman's Passg By get revived on the ge – we're lookg back to expla the prent, examg the liv that have e before orr to better unrstand our the unrstandable ristance to beg pigeon-holed as the gay wrer, gay actor, gay director, advertently ph back the closet. Yet to emerge my generatn is a gay playwright to match those who me before, or a foc and energy of former pani such as Gay Sweatshop. Long before the so-lled gay village, Vxhall was already steeped LGBT history.

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Acrdg to David Coke, ‘the first thentic appearance of a gay man at Vxhall was at the very exclive Ridotto al Fr which re-lnched the refurbished Vxhall Garns on June 7, 1732. The noise of the unrground n be an irratg distractn but that asi this gay iendly venue is fely worth a vis, choose a good play and you willhave a good night outVised September 2018Traveled wh iendsWrten September 16, 2018Cozy TheatreExcellent venue! Moskva River & Grand Kreml PalaceGay Rights and the Suatn RsiaThe UK Foreign Office reports that "Homosexualy is legal Rsia, but there is still tolerance among some sectns of the populatn.

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