Why The Heidi Chronicl Matters as a Gay Play

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The Tony nomee reflects on hard choic, transn, and the gay-bt-iend motif.

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WHAT "THE HEIDI CHRONICL" GETS RIGHT ABOUT FEMISM AND GAY MEN

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The Tony nomee reflects on hard choic, transn, and the gay-bt-iend motif.

Of urse, Peter fds out ten years to the play that he's gay, and that sort of shak Heidi's foundatn of what she thought was possible.

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And this was a time before there was the gay-bt-iend motif. Their relatnship do transcend the gay-bt-iend motif.

"Ultimately, the '70s, g out as gay was much different, " Pkham says. "Peter tri to e his w and charm to exprs himself to Heidi, even g the phrase, "Heidi, I don't play on your team, " but she jt don't seem to get that he's tryg to tell her he's gay.

But for those seeg the play now, pecially for the first time, 's remarkable the way Peter's experience as a gay man is also tailed alongsi Heidi's exploratn of inty and self-fulfillment.

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Why The Heidi Chronicl Matters as a Gay Play .

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