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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.

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JOHN GAY

* british gay playwright *

Inspired by Howards End (1910), wrten by EM Forster — who appears the play as the closeted gu-que character Man — Lopez draws heavily upon his own experience of gay life New York Cy.

Sherman’s Pulzer Prize nomated play Bent, produced first 1978 at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, is wily regard as the play that sparked more rearch to the treatment of homosexuals Nazi Germany durg World War II. Trivia: Her play Sex, Chips and the Holy Ghost featur a transsexual nun and a gay prit. In 1993, he received the Pulzer Prize for his play Angels Ameri: A Gay Fantasia on Natnal Them which was later ma to a film starrg Meryl Streep, Al Paco, Patrick Wilson, Mary-Louise Parker, and Emma Thompson.

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Popular works: Angels Ameri: A Gay Fantasia on Natnal Them, A Bright Room Called Day, The Good Person of Szechuan.

Homosexualy and the theatre have not been strangers. In the first half of the 20th century, you uld be arrted for stagg a gay play. Here are ten of the plays that have ntributed to LGBTQ+ theatre's rich Drag by Mae WtThe Drag follows Rolly, a gay man who marri a woman to hi his sexualy, and the nsequenc of this.

As an avid and unrelentg supporter of gay rights throughout her life, Mae Wt ma wav wh The Drag 1927, which she wrote unr pen name Jane Mast. Faiar wh ntroversy followg her prev play Sex, The Drag ed the most outrage for her pictn of homosexualy and cross-drsg.

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