In the first half of the 20th century, you uld be arrted for stagg a gay play. Theatr uld be packed and shows sold out, but that wouldn’t stop them om beg shut down for "obscene" ntent.
Contents:
- CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER
- KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
- WHAT’S NEXT FOR THE GREAT GAY PLAY? EVERYTHG.
- THE 10 BT GAY MILS OF ALL TIME
CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER
* queer plays *
[…] 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. 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.
KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND
In recent shows, ias of gayns are expandg, bg and disappearg all at once. * queer plays *
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.
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
“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. “‘Temperamental’ was for ‘homosexual’ the early 1950s, part of a created language of secret words that gay men ed to munite.
The Temperamentals tells the story of two men—the munist Harry Hay and the Vienne refugee and signer Rudi Gernreich—as they fall love while buildg the first gay rights anizatn the pre-Stonewall Uned Stat. A headler lled “the nance”—ually played by a straight man—was a stereotypilly mp homosexual and master of ic double entendre.
At a time when was easy to play gay and dangero to be gay, Chncey’s uproar antics on the stage stand out marked ntrast to his offstage life. There’s jt one problem: Both Bob and Norma are gay, and have married each other’s partners as a refully nstcted ver.
WHAT’S NEXT FOR THE GREAT GAY PLAY? EVERYTHG.
Inspired by the te story of the earlit stirrgs of the Amerin gay rights movement, madp classic s-style lghs give way to provotive drama as two “All-Amerin” upl are forced to stare down the closet door.
” Des after the AIDS epimic, three generatns of gay men grapple wh the tragedy of their past and what means for their future. An entreprenr lnched a nned cktail this week lled “Gay Water” that’s aimed at LGBTQ drkers — and said he’s lookg to palize on Bud Light’s mistak. But “Gay Water” — which adopts a moniker the gay muny has long given to the simple vodka and soda cktail — has been spired by the dtup to bee even bolr about the dience ’s targetg, founr and CEO Spencer Hodson told The Post.
THE 10 BT GAY MILS OF ALL TIME
Gay Water — a nned cktail brand that plays on the gay muny’s lloquialism for the vodka-and-soda mixed drk — lnched on Wednday and promis to unrstand s dience better than Bud Light. The 30-year-old Hodson said he is g suggtive — albe playful — msagg and imagery Gay Water’s social media and webse, cludg a provotive nod to the 12-ounce n’s 6.
“Our missn is to -stigmatize the word ‘gay’ and start to create reprentatn spac that tradnally don’t have queer-owned products, let alone products wh the word ‘gay’ their tle, ” Hodson told The Post. The word ‘gay’ origally was fed as happy, and we’re hopg to remd folks of that by beg prent, ” he add.
Founr Spencer Hodson, a gay man, says the brand is about reclaimg the word “gay” as a word that “jt means happy. “Part of the pot of lnchg outsi of Pri month is to rerce the msage that Gay Water is here to make the LGBTQ+ muny more visible 365 days a year, not jt a sgle month, ” he said.