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.
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.
DORIC WILSON, PLAYWRIGHT AND MASTAY OF GAY THEATER, DI AT 72
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 VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
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.
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 VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
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.
To disver somethg about the past, prent, and future of gay theatre, GCN recently terviewed both men.