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Contents:
- TORONTO’S BLUE BELL THEATRE (THE GAY)
- THE 5 BEST TORONTO GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS TORONTO
- GAY FOR PAY WITH BLAKE & CLAY
- FILE:GAY (BLUEBELL) THEATRE, TORONTO (I0026860)
TORONTO’S BLUE BELL THEATRE (THE GAY)
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Followg their participatn the Toronto Queer Theatre Ftival, artists have gone on to produce their shows around the world, cludg the Edburgh Ftival Frge and the Dubl Internatnal Gay Theatre Ftival. Bluebell Theatre, Gay Theatre. It was renamed the Gay Theatre 1954 and closed for a while the early-1970’s.
In September 1954, the theatre was remolled by Murray Sklar, and s named was changed to the Gay. The Gay was owned by Zelif Unger, who was well known for matag strict ntrol durg children’s Saturday-afternoon mate. The theatre after was remolled 1954 and s named changed to the Gay.
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Neher of them stayed wh the theatre pany past a year; neher of them was gay.
But I had lots of gay feelgs, feelgs I was very nflicted about. Some of that nflict me om the gay theatre that I had seen town the late 1970s. And Bob Whe at the Playwrights Co-op told me stori about a real life drag queen named John Herbert, who hadn’t seen much succs sce his huge ternatnal gay h Fortune and Men’s Ey (all about how prison life uld lead to gay sex) the 1960s.
The gay world that I had imaged my head barely existed theatre and films, and certaly not on TV — surfacg ocsnally, for stance, as a dark unrbelly of Nazi Germany Cabaret, oras a shockgly erotic bisexualy The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
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I was obssed wh the beat poets (who were kd of gay, but more bisexual) and Patti Smh — so our first plays were about them.
— featured poetry by “gay poet” Frank O’ Hara. By 1986, I was brave enough to classify Buddi as a gay theatre on grant applitns.
My plays The Drsg Gown and Drag Queens on Trial, created que a splash — the first beg my own crique of the gay muny’s excs, the send beg a celebratn of promiscuy and effemacy.