Time Out's gui to the bt LGBTQ+ theatre shows across London. Coverg everythg om lbian drama to queer baret to gay theatre classics, here's where to fd the latt LGBTQ+ shows across the cy.
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THE 10 BT GAY MILS OF ALL TIME
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Amos is gay. […] In 2018, The Boys the Band ma s Broadway but at the Booth Theatre an unprecented productn featurg a st of entirely out-and-proud gay actors. Ranked lower on the human sle than Jews, the men as avowed homosexuals, flee.
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[…] The Normal Heart follows Ned Weeks, a gay activist enraged at the difference of public officials and the gay muny. Sce his work was classified top secret for years after the war, no one knew how much was owed to him when he was put on trial for breakg another the taboo agast homosexualy.
Turg, who was also the first to nceive of puters, was nvicted of the crimal act of homosexualy and sentenced to unrgo hormone treatments which left him physilly and mentally bilated. “In the first part of Tony Khner’s epic, set 1980’s New York Cy, a gay man is abandoned by his lover when he ntracts the AIDS vis, and a closeted Mormon lawyer’s marriage to his pill-poppg wife stalls.