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Contents:
- THE 10 BT GAY MILS OF ALL TIME
- DUMBLEDORE IS SO GAY!
- GAY AND NONBARY PERFORMERS SWEEP THE TONY AWARDS
- WHAT’S WH GAY MEN AND MIL THEATER?
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY THEATER, THREE ACTS
- SPECTACLETHéâTRE : TROIS SPECTACL GAYS à DéUVRIR EN CE MOMENT à PARIS
- GAY FRIENDLY
- RENNTRE GRATUE GAY à PARIS, (75)
- KNOW YOUR ENTERTAERS: SANDRA GAY
- THE VIEW STAR REVEALS WHY SHE AGRE WH SUPREME COURT LG FOR SIGNER WHO OPPOS GAY MARRIAGE
THE 10 BT GAY MILS OF ALL TIME
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You will be hard-prsed to fd anyone who works theatre who hasn’t heard the words ‘theatre is gay’ at some pot durg their reer.
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DUMBLEDORE IS SO GAY!
From Bottoms and Problemistas to theatre mps and gay wrtlers, this summer has somethg for everyone — pecially if you're queer. * theatre gay *
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GAY AND NONBARY PERFORMERS SWEEP THE TONY AWARDS
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”At this year’s Tony Awards, both lifetime achievement awards also went to gay men: Joel Grey, whose creds clu Cabaret, Gee M!, Wicked, Anythg Go, and Chigo, and John Kanr, who -wrote the sre for fifteen mils, cludg Cabaret and addn, out gay director Michael Arn won the Tony Award for Bt Directn of a Mil for Para and was bleeped for g the f word. He loved opera too, which is another mon stereotype about gay men that ntas a good b of hnted Broadway together, we subscribed to opera seri, and we regularly spread a blanket out Central Park to sip Chardonnay and thrill to why?
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WHAT’S WH GAY MEN AND MIL THEATER?
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“The Boys the Band” was very much a ghetto play, a peephole aimed at gay men. In wrg , Crowley had liberately taken up the challenge tossed down by the theater cric Stanley Kffmann, who a 1966 New York Tim say headled “Homosexual Drama and Its Disguis” asked why that era’s most famo gay playwrights — meang Edward Albee, Tennsee Williams and William Inge — didn’t wre about themselv and leave straights alone.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY THEATER, THREE ACTS
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” are not, as he suggted, gay upl masquera. Nor do homosexuals suffer om an “emotnal-psychologil illns, ” as he sually mentns — for this was an era which such public slurs were chic and permissible, pecially the guise of lerary cricism. ”) Still, there was no nyg that ank plays about gay male life had never reached the mastream, never perated the circl which Kffmanns and Roths and social Crowley wrote the bt and funnit and gayt play he uld, about ne gay men (or maybe eight and a half) at a birthday party.
SPECTACLETHéâTRE : TROIS SPECTACL GAYS à DéUVRIR EN CE MOMENT à PARIS
A gui to what to see the Wt End, wh a gui to London Theatre - om big mils and starry dramas, to the bt of gay theatre London. * theatre gay *
Though some of the men fse the ambient homophobia of the time better than others, almost all of them suffer om the self-hatred that seemed then, and maybe now, to filtrate even the bt-fend personaly.
That’s one of the reasons remas a classic gay play, spe s overpowerg associatn wh the 1960s. (The dialogue crackl wh the sual racism and misogyny of the time, much as Kffmann’s prose glters wh homophobia.
It is also an acknowledgment of a larger urgency about the reprentatn of gay men popular entertament: a moment that, the theater at least, is both sprgboard and logy.
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At a time when many of the classic gay plays are returng to the Broadway stage — “Boys the Band, ” “Angels Ameri” and “Torch Song Trilogy” among them — almost no new on are on the horizon to jo them. When Luckbill, then 33, agreed to play Hank — the “straightt” of the gay men, who’d left his wife and children — his agent said he might as well bid goodbye to his reer. But so heavy and lgerg was the perfume of gayns g off the project that even a heterosexual actor like Luckbill was thought to be mtg theatril suici to book .
RENNTRE GRATUE GAY à PARIS, (75)
Born and raised Brooklyn, New York, Sandra Gay said dancg and theater has always been a huge part of her life, even as she pursued a gree tn at her parents’ beht of “gettg a real job.” * theatre gay *
William Friedk’s fahful movie versn, released 1970 and starrg the entire stage st, turned to a touchstone of gay style and sufferg for gays and straights well beyond New York. As such, is whout doubt the first play the Amerin gay male theatril non.
I wre that admirg many of s spirual forebears, om Tennsee Williams’s “The Glass Menagerie” 1945 to Robert Anrson’s “Tea and Sympathy” 1953 to the early works of Doric Wilson, Lanford Wilson, Robert Patrick and many others who helped spark an efflorcence of downtown gay drama centered at Caffe Co, wh s makhift k-crate stage, startg while buildg on those — and, Crowley says, on Arthur Lrents’s screenplay for Aled Hchck’s 1948 film, “Rope, ” which two gay men murr a classmate for sport — “The Boys the Band” has had the more nsequential gay trajectory.
KNOW YOUR ENTERTAERS: SANDRA GAY
They and the rt of the starry st are succsful, openly gay men, as are the producers, Ryan Murphy and David Stone, and the director, Joe was a liberate statement, meant to acknowledge how far the world has e sce 1968. “The guys that are the leads, ” Murphy says, “are the first generatn of gay actors who said, ‘We’re gog to live thentic liv and hope and pray our reers rema on track’ — and they have. In 1968 he sent his play to a world that, however much might lgh at his gay zgers, seemed likely to rema forever and fundamentally hostile.
Mantello pots out the startlg paradox that all the gay members of the origal pany felt pelled to stay the closet “even though they were a groundbreakg play about gay men. ”But the way the world se gay people and the way gay people see themselv have changed so much, and of late so fast, that plays om even jt a few years ago n seem like Ken Burns documentari.
In one sense, then, the classic gay plays are tnal: remdg a placent generatn of the stggl and tragedi (and fabulons) that unrlie the glossy image of rapid progrs. The normalizatn of gayns that has most ways been a boon has also shnk the historil eye to, well, another peephole. The mistake the play’s many gay crics have ma is thkg that transformative art should be a form of boosterism.
THE VIEW STAR REVEALS WHY SHE AGRE WH SUPREME COURT LG FOR SIGNER WHO OPPOS GAY MARRIAGE
In the aftermath of the Stonewall rts of 1969, while the play still ran, s portrayal of gay male life me to be seen as unterrevolutnary, which was exactly backward, if unrstandable light of the rebrandg unrway. The characters’ promiscuo, boa-flgg, “Oh, Mary”-spoutg, drown-your-troubl--a-vodka-bottle histrnics were distctly off-msage durg the years when gay men were tryg to cultivate lawmakers and police wh their new imag as activists or pillars of the muny, not of Sodom.
Even Albee, who Crowley spects vted secretly the origal productn, once tarred the play as “a highly skillful work that I spised” bee “did ser damage to a burgeong gay rpectabily movement. Between 1984 and 1993, five of the gay men the origal productn, as well as the director, Robert Moore, and the producer, Richard Barr, died of the disease. It would also create the ndns that produced — even necsated — most of the disputably nonil gay plays that succeed “The Boys the Band.