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THE 10 BT GAY MILS OF ALL TIME
Fifteen years after s release, 2007’s Hairspray has end up beg this peculiar 21st century versn of Baltimore, the 2007 remake is the follow up to the John Waters origal released 1988, starrg Ricki Lake, Dive, Sonny Bono, Debbie Harry, and Waters, himself — the proverbial five people you meet gay heaven. If that’s not a gay mantra, I don’t know what, the bon of Hairspray remaed. If that’s not a gay mantra, I don’t know what the foreont of the new versn is Nikki Blonsky, an unknown actrs who dned for the role before she’d even graduated high school.
There’s not even a gay character on stage. His "Torch Song Trilogy" is wily acclaimed for featurg one of the first three-dimensnal gay characters on Broadway, and his follow-up "La Cage x Foll" is a plex, hont portrayal of a same-sex relatnship — which was groundbreakg 1983, particularly the thick of the AIDS more recent years, he's been active off the stage, speakg up for marriage equaly and agast anti-gay hate crim and Rsia's anti-LGBT crackdown.
John Waters' edgy the '80s, off-beat and somehow heart-tuggg film that featured a gay man drag a lead role has morphed to a fun fay not jt due to Broadway producers takg some of the 'edgy' out and preachg to the mass.