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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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. Gay people may fd solace and fort theatre, but there are other groups who do not, and we should make every effort to change MasculyThe other reason why theatre is sometim labeled as queer, most often by men, is that there are aspects of stagecraft that n ntrary to entrenched ias of masculy. Obvly, to label perceived non-mascule tras as ‘gay’ or ‘queer’ is and of self a misnomer.
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. Wh a st of exclively gay actors om a Greenwich Village club, the play was a huge fancial succs, but was wily panned by crics and shut down due to obsceny laws and never ma to Broadway as planned.
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Bt plac for LGBTQ+ theatre LondonBent by Mart ShermanMart Sherman’s harrowg play sh a light on the persecutn of gay men durg the Holot.
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Max (played by Ian McKellen the origal n at the Royal Court) is a gay man Berl the 1930s, taken to Dach wh his boyiend Rudy after the Night of Long Kniv. After Rudy is btally beaten to ath, Max falls love wh an openly gay man the mp.
Bent remas one of the bt known gay plays theatre history and ntu to spire revivals. It is by no means as ntroversial as many plays wh central male gay them, but has to work doubly hard bee of this lack of other lbian storyl on the stage, somethg that is dire need of changg and that Fun Home self uld In Ameri by Tony Khner The exploratn of AIDS 1980s Ameri an epic unrtakg, and Angels Ameri is a suably epic play. Hot on the heels of the Angels Ameri revival, Matthew Lopez asks what is like for the next generatn of young gay men New York, growg up and livg the shadow of the AIDS crisis.