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ANGELS AMERI: A GAY FANTASIA ON NATNAL THEM
Read MoreHarn In Marcia Gay Harn…Mormon lawyer Tony Khner’s Angels Ameri.
Tony Khner’s much-anticipated “Angels Ameri: A Gay Fantasia on Natnal Them, ” prented for the first time s plete seven-hour form, is a heady swirl of spired fancy, harrowg realism and outrageo humor, weighed down only by an unfortunate lack of foc s send half. “Angels, ” set New York Cy, 1985, revolv around two upl –one gay, one straight– whose liv bee tertwed through circumstance, tragedy and longg.
Joe Pt (Jefey Kg) is a young lawyer, a nservative Republin, a Mormon, an ialist and a closet homosexual.
ANGELS AMERI: A GAY FANTASIA ON NATNAL THEM
One such trailblazer whose work has broken both societal and theatril barriers is thor, screenwrer, and playwright Tony Khner—wrer of the h play Angels Ameri: A Gay Fantasia on Natnal Them. Set New York Cy 1985, Khner tak dienc on a journey that follows the life of a gay uple and a Mormon uple, as they tackle issu of sexual, racial, and relig inty and the realy of the AIDS epimic. One of the villas the play is based on a real person, Roy Cohn, a closeted gay Jewish lawyer who served as chief unsel for former Senator Joseph McCarthy.
Although Cohn stood firm as homophobic and anti-Semic, he passed away om AIDS 1986. In 1996, members of the Charlotte, North Carola, muny protted agast Charlotte Repertory Theatre’s productn of Angels Ameri due to a scene that clud homosexual nudy.
ANGELS AMERI: A GAY FANTASIA ON NATNAL THEM
While homophob are by gettg mad at Tom Holland for havg a gay scene his current show The Crowd Room, they’re missg somethg important: he’s not the first Spir-Man actor to play gay. In fact, Holland is followg a long and proud tradn of Spir-Man actors playg are some prev tim that actors who have played Peter Parker have crossed over to the other si and played gay characters movi, TV, and on stage. The first live-actn Spir-Man has played gay several tim his reer, both before and after playg Spir-Man.