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Fun Home n bt be scribed as a “memory play” that s non-lear plot piec together var moments om Alison’s life, particularly focg around her relatnship wh her gay father. Peter later falls love wh Judy’s dghter, Liza Mnelli, but he later to terms wh his sexualy, embracg the fact that he is gay.
[…] In 2018, The Boys the Band ma s Broadway but at the Booth Theatre an unprecented productn featurg a st of entirely out-and-proud gay actors.
Ranked lower on the human sle than Jews, the men as avowed homosexuals, flee. Dperate and on the n, Max asks his own ‘discreetly’ homosexual Uncle Freddie for help as the olr man offers ltle more than suggtns on how to live, as he do, practicg homosexualy on the si. Attemptg their pe, Rudy is beaten to ath as Horst, another homosexual prisoner, warns Max to ny his lover.
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Two of the central characters are outsirs: Guy Bent is g to terms wh homosexualy and Tommy Judd is a mted Marxist. […] The Normal Heart follows Ned Weeks, a gay activist enraged at the difference of public officials and the gay muny. Sce his work was classified top secret for years after the war, no one knew how much was owed to him when he was put on trial for breakg another the taboo agast homosexualy.
Turg, who was also the first to nceive of puters, was nvicted of the crimal act of homosexualy and sentenced to unrgo hormone treatments which left him physilly and mentally bilated. “In the first part of Tony Khner’s epic, set 1980’s New York Cy, a gay man is abandoned by his lover when he ntracts the AIDS vis, and a closeted Mormon lawyer’s marriage to his pill-poppg wife stalls.
His name was Matthew Shepard, and he was the victim of this asslt bee he was gay.