Ten Bt Gay Broadway Mils of All Time

Contents:

• KNOW YOUR ENTERTAERS: SANDRA GAY
• WHAT’S NEXT FOR THE GREAT GAY PLAY? EVERYTHG.
• THE ULTIMATE LGBTIQ+ TRAVEL GUI TO NEW YORK CY: OM QUEER HISTORY TO THE BT GAY BARS
• THE 10 BT GAY MILS OF ALL TIME
• A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY THEATER, THREE ACTS

KNOW YOUR ENTERTAERS: SANDRA GAY

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WHAT’S NEXT FOR THE GREAT GAY PLAY? EVERYTHG.

The 30-year-old Hodson said he is g suggtive — albe playful — msagg and imagery Gay Water’s social media and webse, cludg a provotive nod to the 12-ounce n’s 6.1-ch height.

“Our missn is to -stigmatize the word ‘gay’ and start to create reprentatn spac that tradnally don’t have queer-owned products, let alone products wh the word ‘gay’ their tle,” Hodson told The Post. “Part of the pot of lnchg outsi of Pri month is to rerce the msage that Gay Water is here to make the LGBTQ+ muny more visible 365 days a year, not jt a sgle month,” he said.

THE ULTIMATE LGBTIQ+ TRAVEL GUI TO NEW YORK CY: OM QUEER HISTORY TO THE BT GAY BARS

Although she reloted to Indianapolis upon a iend’s requt, Gay found Actors Ink Theatre Productn Company 1981 after a productn of “For Colored Girls Who Consired Suici / When the Rabow is Enuf” at the Indianapolis Civic Theatre (now The Palladium).

As a POCA pany, Gay said they ter to actors and performers over the age of 65 — her youngt pany member is 68 and the olst is 93 — learng, rehearsg and performg alongsi each other the same way any profsnal pany do.

Although some members of her troupe may have had knee replacements, hip replacements, back pa or breathg problems, Gay said everyone works hard bee they re about the art.

THE 10 BT GAY MILS OF ALL TIME

Of urse, there are always workarounds for those who nnot stand for long or have trouble dancg, but Gay said she fds ways for them to not jt participate but she onstage. Even after all the years, Gay said her philosophy has not changed that rpect and believ she uld teach any subject, cludg math and language, g theater techniqu.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY THEATER, THREE ACTS

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTCric’s NotebookIn recent shows, ias of gayns are expandg, bg and disappearg all at WisemanI don’t know whether was bee my parents were jt generally open-md, or bee they had a specific, kdly yet mortifyg agenda, but one of the first Broadway plays they took me to, June of 1977, was way too gay for fort. Some, like “A Strange Loop” and “Fat Ham, ” dramatize how the experience of racism amplifi that of homophobia, and vice fy expectatns by makg sexual orientatn a distctly sendary ncern among characters who “happen to be” gay or lbian, as “A Case for the Existence of God” and “At the Weddg. When a (male) love tert enters the picture, and they sg Katy Perry’s “I Kissed a Girl” as a duet, you feel somethg new has happened, as ntroversy melts to a blissful cloud of nonbary bubble is the equalizg, homogenizg fluence of pop culture at work — an fluence that some queer people unrstandably mistst.

Jackson’s “A Strange Loop” go further, makg the cross-pollatn of inty the prime source of s nflict, as the ma character nonts both the homophobia of his Black fay and the racism of his queer one. ) Its body, race and orientatn issu are left a kd of stalemate that suggts what might happen if a foundatnal gay play like “The Boys the Band” (which had only one Black character) were multiplied fun hoe mirrors ad fum.