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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]
* 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.
ROUGH TRA REVIEW: GAY LIFE AS ECHO CHAMBER
The meang of ROUGH TRADE is gay men who are or affect to be gged and potentially vlent; also : such a gay person. * rough gay trade *
That’s what means to be a young gay metropolan today.
GAY ‘ROUGH TRA’ SEX: TWO BIG BEEFY BEARS BTAL, FIRST TIME PIG PLAY
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.
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. 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.