Tootle, the Ex-Gay Tra - The Amerin Prospect

Contents:

• REVIEW: THE GAY TRA, YELLOW MUG THEATRE, EDFRGE 2022 ★★★☆☆
• MEET THE ARTIST MAKG NEW YORKERS' SUBWAY RIS EXTREMELY GAY
• TOOTLE, THE EX-GAY TRA
• EDBURGH FTIVAL FRGE THEATRE REVIEWS: BROTHER'S KEEPER | CONCEPT FOR A FILM | THE GAY TRA | REDEEMHER - HOW I SCREWED UP MY PERFECT MORMON LIFE | ULTIMATUM | THE ULTIMATE PICKLE

REVIEW: THE GAY TRA, YELLOW MUG THEATRE, EDFRGE 2022 ★★★☆☆

The Gay Tra tak a thoroughly good go at divg headfirst to the way that Trans liv are prented the media and the vastatg nsequenc. There are a few thgs holdg The Gay Tra back achievg s aims – though they should be viewed tanm wh how all-enpassg and amb this piece is.

It feels as though The Gay Tra needs a b more workshoppg to make the words and movements feel natural and relaxed, rather than uptight, and the actors need to let their guard down a ltle more to perform to the bt of their abily. Remend Drk: The Gay Tra is an Appleti – outwardly queer, ready to liver a sour experience to the ignorant and unprepared, but maybe needs a ltle b of updatg.

Catch The Gay Tra before leav the statn between Augt 17th and 28th at RSE – Wele East, at 20:10. Take the Gay TraEdSummari'The Gay Tra' mak three stops along the cultural landspe of the Harlem Renaissance: one poem, one short story, and one drag ball. "Take the Gay Tra" charts the progrs of gay sensibily durg the Harlem Renaissance through a poetic e of historil stills, ntemporary filmmakg, scholarly accuracy, and mic of the perd.

MEET THE ARTIST MAKG NEW YORKERS' SUBWAY RIS EXTREMELY GAY

Part 2, 'Smoke, Lili and Ja, ' dramatiz an famo Nugent short story of the same name, the first gay romance Amerin lerature. Travelg on the Gay Tra, the passenger mak stops along the stag of an emergg gay inty: om hidn anguish, to a first kiss, to a fully blown mp culture which feels ntemporary 80 years later.

However, this trip is que origal and stands out om the standard gay cis, rorts, and ftivals that are typil of gay group travel general. The three of who started , we are a mix of gays and non-gays.

Larry Craig, R-Idaho, a men's rtroom at the Mneapolis airport for allegedly lookg to engage gay sex wrote his June report that he "regnized a signal ed by persons wishg to engage lewd nduct.

TOOTLE, THE EX-GAY TRA

Craig told reporters today that he did nothg appropriate and said his guilty plea was a plac like men's rtrooms, airports and tra statns, tck stops, universy librari and parks, have long been plac where gay and bisexual men, particularly those the closet, ngregate orr to meet for anonymo time, people faiar wh cisg told, gay men began g a dified system of signals to dite to others that they were terted sex. In an effort to curb lewd acts public — or as some gays argue, an effort to persecute gay men — unrver police began stg operatns plac known for sex solicg and employed the same s.

EDBURGH FTIVAL FRGE THEATRE REVIEWS: BROTHER'S KEEPER | CONCEPT FOR A FILM | THE GAY TRA | REDEEMHER - HOW I SCREWED UP MY PERFECT MORMON LIFE | ULTIMATUM | THE ULTIMATE PICKLE

Bee much of the signalg is self benign behavr, some gay rights activists and lawyers have admonished police partments for arrtg men who have done ltle more than tap their feet. "Cizens have a right not to nont lewd activy public plac, " said Steve Sanrs, a lawyer and gay rights activist. "But if there is evince that a stg is motivated by anti-gay anim, that may reprent a more troublg issue.

If a se like this went to trial, police officers would have to produce evince to say here is how we n say wh certaty this is was really a lewd act, " he plead guilty to the charg and therefore opted agast a, Craig nied beg gay and said he ma a mistake by pleadg officers, for the most part, only vtigate an area after members of the public have plaed about beg ed for sex, said Rich Gregson, executive director of the California Peace Officers Associatn. "Wh many other optns available for gay men to meet each other, Gershen Kfman, a profsor emer of psychology at Michigan State Universy and thor of the book "Comg Out of Shame, " said public cisg is practiced maly by eply closeted men.

Let me troduce you to Tootle, the ex-gay tra. But 's almost impossible to read as anythg but an anti-gay allegory. "So basilly, Tootle gets tempted by a smokg hot horse sayg, "Hey, sailor, " giv to vile temptatn, unrgo some reparative therapy, and emerg happily ex-gay at the book's end.