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. 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. One of the most important men Heidi's life is her bt iend Peter Patrone (played by Bryce Pkham the revival), a gay pediatrician who out to Heidi the first act.
<b>Wendy Wasserste's inic play, now beg revived on Broadway, unrl important tths about the need for gay men to support women — a pot Patricia Arquette, and others, have stggled to articulate.</b> * bryce pinkham gay *
The play poss that for gay men who want the support of their heterosexual female iends, fightg for women's rights is equally sential. That's somethg many gay men 2015 need to be remd of, and 's what Patricia Arquette was tryg to get at her Osrs speech and her ntroversial remarks the prs room Febary: "It's time for all the women Ameri and all the men that love women, and all the gay people, and all the people of lor that we've all fought for to fight for now.
" Arquette was cricized for ignorg tersectnaly — naturally there are plenty of queer people and POC who are also women — but if her remarks n be taken, part, as a ll-out to gay men particular, she's not entirely off-base. In November, Rose McGowan also drew ire when she lled gay men "misogynistic" their failure to mpaign for women's rights.
And jt last month, Madonna clared, "Gay rights are way more advanced than women's rights.