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HOW THE EARLY ’80S CHANGED GAY WRG FOREVER
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AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT‘Dancer From the Dance, ’ ‘Angels Ameri’ — and the that brought queer lerature to the GoldANDREW HOLLERAN’S 1978 novel, “Dancer From the Dance, ” was not the first gay novel I read. It was, however, the first gay novel everybody any rate, was the first gay novel every gay man I knew seemed to have read. It was the first Big Gay Lerary Sensatn.
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.
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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. Courty of Milton Glaser“Angels Ameri, ” however, is no gimlet-eyed crique of homo high jks. Fire Island might as well be on another pla protagonists “Angels Ameri” are nonted not only by homophobia and self-stctn but also by their own natur, by love’s power and love’s failure, by censor religns and llo policians, by racism and classism.
Ironilly enough, “Dancer” ends wh the mise of s primary characters, whereas “Angels” ends wh liv ntug we open this segment of the ongog gay story, then, 1978, wh an amb tale of gay self-stctn, we wriggle through the wormhole of 1981 and emerge 1991, wh an epic about gay men who refe to be stroyed. A versn of this article appears prt on, Page 58 of T Magaze wh the headle: Gay Lerature. "Particular Voic" is an extraordary visual rerd of the flowerg of queer voic the wake of Stonewall and the AIDS crisis, while also payg homage to many earlier 20th Century activists and wrers who had urged the creatn of a muny inty, or otherwise gave public voice to gay and lbian sensibili.