<p><strong>Michael Billgton: </strong>The gay and lbian theatre movement has changed radilly sce the opprsive days of the 1950s, but uld more wrers rise to the challenge of ntemporary issu?</p>
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1964: THE BIRTH OF GAY THEATER
Queer Theater Alliance is a natnal aln of theaters that prent theatril programmg by, for, and about LGBTQ+ (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer) muni as their primary missn. Through monthly meetgs, the alliance uplifts and amplifi Queer Theatre by sharg creative and operatnal rourc that support queer theater and queer theater artists. Missn Queer Theater… * queer theatre alliance *
Queer Theater Alliance is a natnal aln of theaters that prent theatril programmg by, for, and about LGBTQ+ (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer) muni as their primary missn.
* queer theatre alliance *
StageQ’s missn is to celebrate and advance queer reprentatn through theatre wrten by and about LGBTQ+ personsStageQ was found 2001 by Thomas McClurg orr to provi a stable home for gay and lbian-themed plays wh the broar Madison theater muny. Queer theatre is the accepted generic term for the gay theatre movement: one that embrac both men and women, that vers plays, mils, baret and jt about everythg else, and which has been gog strong Bra and Ameri for well over 40 years.
IF “GAY THEATER” is fed as beg by, for, and about uncloseted gay people, then 2014 arguably marks the 50th anniversary of the genre’s existence. * queer theatre alliance *
In the opprsive 1950s, where every play had to be approved by the lord chamberla before uld be performed public, Brish dramatists were necsarily oblique their prentatn of gay issu. But dramatists at the time were obliged to work : when the hero of Emlyn Williams's superlative Acla (1950) is acced of havg sex wh an unrage girl Rotherhhe, I tomatilly assume Williams was really talkg about 's been hearteng to see gay wrers explog the eedom that me wh the aboln of censorship and the relaxatn of the law. The 1970s saw the emergence of Gay Sweatshop Bra, found 1975, and the Gay Theatre Alliance Ameri, which burst to life not long after.