Qutn about Sudnly Last Summer: “Was Tennsee Wiliams gay?”
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WAS TENNSEE WILIAMS GAY?
What you may not know is that the playwright was homosexual durg a time Ameri’s history that was practilly crimal to be such. It was durg the late 1930s when Williams me to terms wh his homosexualy.
The Uned Stat was fairly nservative durg this time, and life was harsh for homosexuals. Many laws were passed outlawg gay relatnships.
TENNSEE WILLIAMS’ PATGS EXPLORED BEG GAY AMERI
Beg openly gay durg his lifetime was an timidatg proposn, but Williams ran hard and fast wh , experiencg public, temptuo relatnships that would have ma him verifiable Instagram fire if he'd jt stuck out for a few more s. In Williams’ life, tty remarks were tossed at him and thrown back to his iends Donald Wdham, Gore Vidal, and Tman Capote, that is to say, other gay wrers of his generatn whose cricism Williams endured, even as he tolerated their work as playwrights (yet somehow passg on to them that he knew himself to be the superr dramatist—and was).