Contents:
- WHERE ARE YVETTE AND DORIS GAY NOW?
- DORIC WILSON, PLAYWRIGHT AND MASTAY OF GAY THEATER, DI AT 72
- THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
- THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
WHERE ARE YVETTE AND DORIS GAY NOW?
However, wh Ann’s fay takg her si the nflicts, Renwick grew creasgly enraged until he took Yvette Gay’s help and murred the Farris fay ld blood. Let’s take a tailed look at the se and fd out where Yvette and Doris Gay are at prent, shall we? While beg married to Ann Farris Gibbs, Renwick Gibbs saw his girliend, Yvette Gay, on the si and would often seek her solace when thgs wh his wife got rough.
DORIC WILSON, PLAYWRIGHT AND MASTAY OF GAY THEATER, DI AT 72
Where Are Yvette and Doris Gay Now? On the other hand, prison rerds state that Doris Gay was granted parole 2012.
It is also highly signifint as a pneer the velopment of gay theater, at a time when was still illegal to pict homosexualy on stage. He then allowed patrons to stage poetry readgs and short avant-gar theatril performanc, cludg gay-themed works.
A year later, 1961, four plays (cludg two gay-themed plays) by Doric Wilson helped tablish the Co as a venue not only for new work but also for new work wh gay subject matter. The stagg of Lanford Wilson‘s The Madns of Lady Bright 1964 was the Co’s breakthrough h as well as another early origal play to al wh gay subject matter.
THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
By 1965, the Co had bee well known for s gay-themed plays. For the first time New York Cy, and perhaps the untry, LGBT people — on a year-round basis and one centrally loted space — regularly saw pictns of themselv a more multi-dimensnal and realistic light, ntrastg the negative stereotyp that had permeated mastream theater and film for most of the 20th century ( was, fact, still illegal the early and mid-1960s to pict homosexualy on the Broadway stage). I never certaly would have wrten about gay subjects that eely.
The Caffe Co provid an important platform for newly emergg gay playwrights, directors, and actors. A selectn of gay theater artists and their work at the Co clus:. Lanford Wilson, playwright whose eleven plays wrten for the Co ma him the venue’s most prolific playwright of origal work, cludg The Madns of Lady Bright (1964), his first signifint gay-themed play.
The ffeehoe self also served as a signifint meetg spot for gay men. A good al of the gay theater New York Cy is produced unr the spic of two Off-Off-Broadway figur � Doric Wilson, artistic director of The Other Si of Silence (TOSOS), 257 Church St., and John Gl, director of The Gl Theatre, 260 Wt Broadway.
THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
To disver somethg about the past, prent, and future of gay theatre, GCN recently terviewed both men. What emerged was an unadorned look at the personali behd gay theatre. TOSOS, Inc., is a non-prof workshop of the performg and visual arts mted to an open and hont exploratn of the many exprsns of the gay life style.
The purpose of TOSOS is a pursu of self-inty and rpect, and a broang of gay and straight attus through the creative procs. For the theatre to survive as a gay theatre � we have the dience, we have the actor support, we have the support of the OOB muny, but we do not have the scripts, which puts the suatn of lookg at what there is to revive, but there isn�t really very much, and we�ve h most of them. The next le down is to do gay playwrights even if the play isn�t gay, and ultimately we may have to do jt straight plays if nothg else is available.