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TORONTO’S BLUE BELL THEATRE (THE GAY)

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Bluebell Theatre, Gay Theatre. It was renamed the Gay Theatre 1954 and closed for a while the early-1970’s.

In September 1954, the theatre was remolled by Murray Sklar, and s named was changed to the Gay. The Gay was owned by Zelif Unger, who was well known for matag strict ntrol durg children’s Saturday-afternoon mate. The theatre after was remolled 1954 and s named changed to the Gay.

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And Bob Whe at the Playwrights Co-op told me stori about a real life drag queen named John Herbert, who hadn’t seen much succs sce his huge ternatnal gay h Fortune and Men’s Ey (all about how prison life uld lead to gay sex) the 1960s. The gay world that I had imaged my head barely existed theatre and films, and certaly not on TV — surfacg ocsnally, for stance, as a dark unrbelly of Nazi Germany Cabaret, oras a shockgly erotic bisexualy The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

I was obssed wh the beat poets (who were kd of gay, but more bisexual) and Patti Smh — so our first plays were about them. — featured poetry by “gay poet” Frank O’ Hara. By 1986, I was brave enough to classify Buddi as a gay theatre on grant applitns.

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My plays The Drsg Gown and Drag Queens on Trial, created que a splash — the first beg my own crique of the gay muny’s excs, the send beg a celebratn of promiscuy and effemacy.

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