Ten Bt Gay Broadway Mils of All Time

Contents:

• THE 10 BT GAY MILS OF ALL TIME
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• 30 GAY LOVE SONGS: MEN SGG ABOUT MEN

THE 10 BT GAY MILS OF ALL TIME

The Tony awards have always been a gay affair, plete wh out hosts like Neil Patrick Harris and wners like David Hy Pierce famoly thankg their partners at the podium. The story revolv around a group of gay iends g together for a iend's birthday party Manhattan, and ends wh stori about long-lost lovers, and one character g out to his wife.

Created by out playwright John Cameron Mchell, Hedwig spired a feature film and a Broadway revival, wh gay actors like Neil Patrick Harris and Andrew Rannells takg on the Home This crilly-acclaimed Broadway mil was adapted by Lisa Kron and Jeane Tori om Alison Bechl's 2006 graphic memoir of the same name. The story follows the life of Alison, cludg a g-out that's plited by her father's own secret gay life. Each act foc on a different time Arnold's life, om his relatnship wh a bisexual man, to adoptg a child wh his partner, to beg a sgle dad raisg a gay son.

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

The storyle was a darg productn for the time -- even though alt wh a lbian romance, was weled by the public and beme a huge Sex Another award-wng play by Harvey Fierste, Safe Sex premiered on Broadway 1987 and took dienc to the life of a gay man rg for his lover as he succumbs to AIDS-related illns. After his partner's ath, the protagonist mt meet his lover's wife and Pri Set both the 1950s and 2008, The Pri, wrten by Alexi Kaye Campbell, parallels two gay love stori two very different eras. The play foc on gay uple Ge and Alb, and the adventur that ensue when Ge's son brgs home his fiancee's ultra-nservative parents for the first time.

As most know, the stage productns were adapted for numero French films and a very famo Amerin remake, starrg Rob Williams and Nathan This 1979 play, wrten by Mart Sherman, revolv around the persecutn of gays Nazi Germany, and tak place durg and after the Night of the Long Kniv, the vlent 1934 uprisg that brought Hilter to power. Bent was dark and horrifyg, featurg performanc by Ian McKellen and Richard Gere as the gay protagonist. However, when me to the stori we were tellg, the narrative often shifted back to the heteronormative the begng, gay them were all the subtext and packed away as double entendr by lyricists such as Cole Porter.

30 GAY LOVE SONGS: MEN SGG ABOUT MEN

Now regard as a Broadway classic, A Chos Le tells the stori of 17 Broadway dancers as they dn for plac a chos le of a fictnal Broadway you may not thk of A Chos Le as a gay mil the same way you thk of shows like Rent or Everybody's Talkg About Jamie was ground-breakg for s time as openly discsed gay stori on a Broadway stage. Most other gay works durg the 1970s and 80s found themselv hidn away off-off-Broadway. At the KKat Klub we meet a llectn of eccentric characters where the l of genr inty and sexualy are blurred the cy once nsired the gay pal of Europe.