1964: The Birth of Gay Theater - The Gay & Lbian Review

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IF “GAY THEATER” is fed as beg by, for, and about uncloseted gay people, then 2014 arguably marks the 50th anniversary of the genre’s existence.

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Sunday, May 211pm — You Can Live Forever3:30pm — DOUBLE FEATURE: Our League & When Time Got Lour + Talkback and Meet & Greet wh Our League Team7:30pm — Esther Newton Ma Me Gay. -Exclive accs to Stt Pilgrim Pre-Party prented by Charlotte Gaymers Network before the film wh plimentary food and beverage (Friday, May 19th). Faced wh tradnal teenage expectatns om fay, iends and his girliend, Jake is unsure of what he wants until a handsome, basketball-lovg, shamelsly-out gay kid, mov across the street – turng Jake’s world wonrfully upsi down.

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1964: THE BIRTH OF GAY THEATER

ESTHER NEWTON MADE ME GAY is a rare look at queer history and genr studi through a livg lbian in, enpassg amazg archival footage peppered wh Esther’s other passn…dog trag poodl!

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“We all said that thoands of relig anizatns all across the untry ask their employe to uphold their tradnal view of marriage word and ed, and if you terpret the statute that way, ’s gog to unleash lots of lawsus agast them, ” Goodrich the Supreme Court has specifilly said preventg racial discrimatn is a pellg ernment tert that jtifi rtrictg First Amendment eedoms, he noted that the Supreme Court has rejected such a fdg on discrimatn agast gay or transgenr people. See the Vis Gay Charlotte Calenr for all Queen Cy Theatre Company productns.

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IF “GAY THEATER” is fed as beg by, for, and about uncloseted gay people, then 2014 arguably marks the 50th anniversary of the genre’s existence. In 1964, spe a social climate of homophobia that pervad Amerin life for the send third of the 20th century, two one-act plays prented Off-Off-Broadway at the Caffe Co revolutnized how gay characters uld be reprented theatrilly.

Produced a readg of “Hnted Host” 2008 an eveng honorg Robert Patrick for his ntributn to gay theater over the past five s. The plays marked a major cultural turng pot, nsirg the outright censorship that gay playwrights faced the precedg s. At the height of the Pansy Craze the late 1920s, Mae Wt penned The Drag, a “social problem” play that argued for sympathetic treatment of homosexuals.

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