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‘BOYS THE BAND’ DIRECTOR JOE MANTELLO ON HIS ALL-GAY CAST AND THE ‘VIRGIA WOOLF’ THAT WOULD’VE BEEN
Instead of lbian, gay or bisexual, the term most monly ed by Va and Virgia to scribe their "proclivi" is "Sapphist": a phemism after Sappho, an ancient poet of sensual verse about women, who lived on the Greek island of Lbos (spirg, too, the word ‘lbian’). While male homosexualy the U. Was still a crimal offense at the time, there was no equivalent legislatn that targeted gay women.
However, 1921, some lawmakers voted to crimalize “sexual acts of gross cency” between women, although the law was never passed bee policians feared would enurage women to explore homosexualy. Born 1895, Virgia Woolf grew up as part of a fay practicg strong Victorian valu, a time where the exprsn of beg LGBT+ was largely supprsed and uld be extremely dangero (Only In 1861 was the ath penalty abolished for gay relatnships).