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THE GAY INTROVERT TAK CENTER STAGE JAM SWEENEY'S STRAIGHT UP
Sweeney directed, wrote, and starred the productn about a gay man, Todd, who, turned off by the msy necsi of sex, tri to make a chaste relatnship work wh a woman, Rory (Katie Fdlay) Todd, the "purebred gay" filmmaker once stggled to meet men and only found meangful -- if not sexual -- nnectns wh women his life. Likewise, Sweeney had difficulti fdg a place the gay muny.
Yet, as an Asian-Amerin who grew up Alaska whout LGBTQ iends, the media portrayals of gay culture -- bars, loud mic, hypersexualizatn -- felt alien to him. Movg to Los Angel, where gay men seemed more likely to flock to the Abbey than the Wt Hollywood library, did not improve matters eher.