The meang of ROUGH TRADE is gay men who are or affect to be gged and potentially vlent; also : such a gay person.
Contents:
- ROUGH TRA : [DANGERO GAY EROTI]
- ROUGH TRA REVIEW: GAY LIFE AS ECHO CHAMBER
- GAY ‘ROUGH TRA’ SEX: TWO BIG BEEFY BEARS BTAL, FIRST TIME PIG PLAY
- FOXTCHER’S GAY SUBTEXT BRGS “ROUGH TRA” TO THE MOVI
ROUGH TRA : [DANGERO GAY EROTI]
BLUF, the Breech and Leather Uniform Fanclub. An anisatn for men (primarily gay) wh an tert leather uniforms. We anise social events, and provi a directory of rourc * rough gay trade *
In playwright Kev Berry’s note the program for his play Rough Tra, he wr, “As [the four characters] I hope you gays the dience fd yourself lookg a mirror reflectg back your imperfectn, your love, your hope, your rage.
That is, a righteo reflectn of what is to be a young metropolan gay person today, eply ncerned wh social jtice, personal and polil enrichment, and a level of self-awarens for our flaws that is jt ch beyond reproach.
That’s what means to be a young gay metropolan today. Perhaps now is the time for that kd of work, some kd of balance between the prosaic and the visceral, when the landspe for a lot of bigger gay thgs mostly flatters our looks.
ROUGH TRA REVIEW: GAY LIFE AS ECHO CHAMBER
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Broadly speakg, even the most poison-penned satire of gay people has a whiff of the enarg, like The Other Two or, yeah, even Bros. They don’t feel like people who claim enough self-awarens to navigate the change dynamic a way where they’re privy to the very polics of iendship self, gay or otherwise.
GAY ‘ROUGH TRA’ SEX: TWO BIG BEEFY BEARS BTAL, FIRST TIME PIG PLAY
For those privy to the gay metropolan experience, we’re meant to regnize the characters and be over-faiar wh their every gture and nce.
FOXTCHER’S GAY SUBTEXT BRGS “ROUGH TRA” TO THE MOVI
Its hyper-referentialy and s fairly overt liftg om other works (a dash of Edward Albee here, a sprkle of Mart Crowley there) aren’t (re)arranged such a way as to exame and nstct the “gay play” as has morphed over time. Where Fake Friends’s work Circle Jerk bounc around apparat and mos to give a mented perversn of the gay play, Rough Tra’s paradoxil ward anxiety and aggrsive nfince about s inty feels unimagative.