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HOW THE EARLY ’80S CHANGED GAY WRG FOREVER
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Although “Dancer From the Dance” centers on two gay men named Malone and Sutherland, ’s as much a story about New York Cy’s gay life the 1970s as is the story of Malone’s and Sutherland’s own liv. Spoiler alert:Both Malone and Sutherland e to bad (if ambiguo) ends, the general tradn of the time, whereby gay characters were allowed onto the b of narrative as long as they were thrown off aga before the b reached s said, Malone and Sutherland float away as much as they expire — their partur are more like that of Ophelia “Hamlet” than they are like that of Tennsee Williams’s Sebastian Venable, hacked to ath and eaten by village children. No one, however, argued about the book’s fily to the reckls, rto life lived certa (whe, well-favored) circl on Pla Gay.
Three years later, 1981, the first report of Gay-Related Immune Deficiency AIDS epimic didn’t mean the end of dancg, or sex, or dgs.
Gay people and traveno dg ers — those most at risk at the time — had been emed dilemma of the self-hatg homo lookg for love all the wrong plac paled — paled for some of — the face of a plague about which no one power seemed to give a damn. It paled as nights spent hospals replaced nights spent on the dis mordant (if all too te) tale of gay men enjoyg themselv to ath ma way for the (all too te) AIDS-era tale of gay men fgered randomly by ATTEMPT TO name the noteworthy narrativ about gay life sce 1981 would volve too many omissns. Let’s nfe ourselv to a play that wasn’t the first gay AIDS play I saw, but was the first gay AIDS play almost everybody saw: Tony Khner’s 1991 “Angels Ameri.