Playwright Robert Patrick, who some lled "the Godfather of Gay Theater", has died. Friends on social media have been mourng the loss and celebratg the life of Patrick, a life that affected many the theater world as well as dienc around the world. Here's a brief list his many acplishments; In 1961 Patrick stopped
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- DID YOU CATCH ASTEROID CY’S NOD TO A GREAT GAY PLAYWRIGHT?
- GAYS ON BROADWAY BY ETHAN MORDN REVIEW – STAGE WHISPERS
- PNEERG GAY PLAYWRIGHT ROBERT PATRICK DI AT 85
- THE 10 BT GAY MILS OF ALL TIME
- #RIP: “GODFATHER OF GAY THEATER”, PLAYWRIGHT ROBERT PATRICK
- HOW A 1960S OPENLY-GAY PLAYWRIGHT MET THE BEATL, AND HIS UNTIMELY END
- ROBERT PATRICK, EARLY AND PROLIFIC PLAYWRIGHT OF GAY LIFE, DI AT 85
- TERRENCE MCNALLY, TONY-WNG PLAYWRIGHT OF GAY LIFE, DI AT 81
- DC REVIVG HANNA-BARBERA’S ‘SNAGGLEPS’ AS GAY PLAYWRIGHT
DID YOU CATCH ASTEROID CY’S NOD TO A GREAT GAY PLAYWRIGHT?
Barbiemania htg s peak summer 2023 helped one 30-year-old wrer release the childhood shame he felt when playg wh Barbie dolls as a young gay child. * gay playwright *
Inspired by Howards End (1910), wrten by EM Forster — who appears the play as the closeted gu-que character Man — Lopez draws heavily upon his own experience of gay life New York Cy. Sherman’s Pulzer Prize nomated play Bent, produced first 1978 at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, is wily regard as the play that sparked more rearch to the treatment of homosexuals Nazi Germany durg World War II.
GAYS ON BROADWAY BY ETHAN MORDN REVIEW – STAGE WHISPERS
A gossipy, sightful survey of the (often closeted) gay ntributn to Amerin theatre * gay playwright *
In 1993, he received the Pulzer Prize for his play Angels Ameri: A Gay Fantasia on Natnal Them which was later ma to a film starrg Meryl Streep, Al Paco, Patrick Wilson, Mary-Louise Parker, and Emma Thompson. But when we do meet Earp some early scen, we learn jt enough about him to unrstand exactly who he’s moled after: the famo gay playwright Tennsee Williams.
PNEERG GAY PLAYWRIGHT ROBERT PATRICK DI AT 85
Patrick's The Hnted Host was one of the first plays wh an admirable gay protagonist. * gay playwright *
Experimentg wh femy the safety of the home — even somethg as mcule as selectg girl characters vio gam and livg virly through her abily to kick ass — seems to be a shared gay experience for many of . It feels remiscent of the adoratn that gay fans hold toward old Hollywood beti like Joan Crawford and Judy Garland, or the pageant-style exaggeratns of femy that unrpned so much of early drag culture.
THE 10 BT GAY MILS OF ALL TIME
Gay-themed Broadway mils have e a long way the past fifty years. The on are the bt. * gay playwright *
Barbie has been the subject of the same gay diva worship over the years, and Gerwig’s film promently featurg LGBTQ+ actors feels like a nod to that history.
Part of Barbie’s gay appeal might be that, spe beg plastic and unmalleable, she n transform herself to anythg: doctor, lawyer, judge, journalist, and vet, or whatever Mattel thks will sell the most dolls. ) As the world’s most famo doll, she has been st as both an aspiratnal hero and a rctive villa — the gay world, this polarizg dualy often turns women to ins.
#RIP: “GODFATHER OF GAY THEATER”, PLAYWRIGHT ROBERT PATRICK
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Now, I feel proud of my ltle gay self for havg the urage to play wh those fabulo dolls — and of my parents for buyg me the toys I wanted, not the on I was supposed to like.
It may seem strange given theatre’s reputatn for sexual licence, but the 20th century, gay men and lbians on Broadway had to spend most of their reers the closet.
It begs at the turn of the 20th century and culmat wh Tori and Lisa Kron’s mil Fun Home and the 2019 Broadway productn of The Inherance, Matthew Lopez’s six-and-a-half-hour gay revamp of Howards End (pendg on your viewpot, eher eply movg or Howards Endls)’s srcely the first survey of s kd. Only on rare and trigugly dangero ocsns did homosexualy make to the text nversatnally through 120 years 218 pag means there’s ltle time for staed argument.
HOW A 1960S OPENLY-GAY PLAYWRIGHT MET THE BEATL, AND HIS UNTIMELY END
He got his start at Caffe Co, the birthplace of Off Off Broadway. His first of hundreds of plays, performed there 1964, is a tone of gay theater. * gay playwright *
Dpe the latter’s openns about his sexualy and the reputatn of his plays, Mordn pots out: “Williams’ outwardly gay characters are ually off-stage or ad.
” And he also floats the ia that Noël Coward – the man he argu first ed the word gay the ntemporary sense onstage a lyric for his operetta Bter Sweet – was wrg a d gay relatnship when he brought a threateng first love back to a marriage Blhe dismissive and far om balanced, Mordn is strong on barely remembered wrers like lyricist-librettist John Latouche.
And he’s ft about John Van Dten, once famo for turng Christopher Isherwood’s Berl stori to I Am a Camera which begat Cabaret, but who also wrote the cunng closet drama Bell, Book and Candle, ostensibly about wch livg 1950 Greenwich Village but whose real subject is clearly lbians and gay his groundbreakg 1981 book The Celluloid Closet, Vo Rso wrote that even until the 1960s, as far as Amerin cema was ncerned, “homosexualy was still somethg you did the dark or Europe, preferably both”.
ROBERT PATRICK, EARLY AND PROLIFIC PLAYWRIGHT OF GAY LIFE, DI AT 85
”Patrick eventually wrote hundreds of plays, and he “renred gay (and straight) life wh tic w, an open heart and fizzy mp, ” the Tim reports.
Among the more notable on were Kennedy’s Children, about post-1960s disillnment, which end up on Broadway 1975 after productns off-Broadway and London; T-Shirts, an exploratn of gay male culture; and Blue Is for Boys, set a llege dorm rerved for gay stunts. Survivors clu a sister, Angela Patrice Your Se ArticlRelightg Harvey Fierste's Legendary 'Torch' 40 Years Later ›Harvey Fierste as Bella Abzug on Audible Is as Prcient as Ever ›Harvey Fierste Worked Wh Warhol Before Makg Broadway History ›How Harvey Fierste Has Always Led the Way for Queer Visibily ›Theater | ›Stonewall Opera, Chic Theater Hotel, and Bob The Drag Queen ›Stephen Sondheim, Mil Theater Legend, Dead at 91 ›Oped Why Gay Men Love The Theater ›.
TERRENCE MCNALLY, TONY-WNG PLAYWRIGHT OF GAY LIFE, DI AT 81
It’s a gay romance, enpassg nearly half a century and begng when Nate, a middle-class kid om New Jersey (like Rudnick himself) who dreams of beg an actor or playwright or “simply someone who’d ll other people ‘darlg, ’” meets the patrician, relsly handsome Farrell 1973, durg their first days at Yale.
DC REVIVG HANNA-BARBERA’S ‘SNAGGLEPS’ AS GAY PLAYWRIGHT
(Nate, settlg Manhattan’s Wt Village after llege, is dazzled to fd his first gay gym, filled wh “mcular men heavg and gntg and argug venomoly about opera.