Broadway is buzzg wh a 6 1/2-hour tale of gay men nnectg across generatns. Playwright Matthew Lopez talks about trailblazers, startg wh E.M. Forster.
Contents:
- WHAT N GAY MEN LEARN OM THEIR ELRS? TO MATTHEW LOPEZ, THAT’S ‘THE INHERANCE’
- IS MAR LOPEZ GAY? HIS SEXUALY AND LONG DATG HISTORY
- WHO IS TONY LOPEZ? WHO IS HE DATG? IS TONY LOPEZ GAY? B
- IS MAR LOPEZ GAY? HIS SEXUALY AND LONG DATG HISTORY
WHAT N GAY MEN LEARN OM THEIR ELRS? TO MATTHEW LOPEZ, THAT’S ‘THE INHERANCE’
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In 2018, Lopez ma his big screen but the feature film Mapplethorpe, playg gay activist Jack Frscher, the foundg edor of leather-themed magaze Dmmer and Mapplethorpe’s ocsnal lover, the new Robert Mapplethorpe bpic. “When I was younger, I was self-nsc about g off ‘too gay’, ” he told the Washgton Bla earlier this year. As gays, ’s kept safe.
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IS MAR LOPEZ GAY? HIS SEXUALY AND LONG DATG HISTORY
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WHO IS TONY LOPEZ? WHO IS HE DATG? IS TONY LOPEZ GAY? B
Forster the story — perhaps s social nscience or s humor, for there is nothg overtly gay about the movie or Forster’s 1910 novel on which is based.
Characters and plot pots have equivalents the play, but he has stretched to new them a wholly different i: a circle of gltergly wty, chumy affectnate, gay New Yorkers. “I am tellg my experience as a gay man born 1977: the life that I’ve lived, the men I have known, the iends I have lost, the hop that I have, the fears that I’ve grappled wh, the shame that I’ve grappled wh.
IS MAR LOPEZ GAY? HIS SEXUALY AND LONG DATG HISTORY
’s Geffen his personal list of trailblazers, Lopez trac a le back through gay poets Walt Whman and Edward Carpenter, who fluenced Forster.