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- THE BT, GAYT MIL WON THE NIGHT AT THE TONY AWARDS
- TONY AWARDS: GAY, BLACK PLAY NAMED BT MIL, FIRST NON-BARY WNER AND JENNIFER HUDSON GETS EGOT
- TONY AWARDS BLEEP OUT (RECLAIMED!) GAY SLUR
THE BT, GAYT MIL WON THE NIGHT AT THE TONY AWARDS
Three major queer triumphs clud A Strange Loop, about a gay Black man tryg to wre a mil about a gay Black man—which won bt mil; Company, which won bt revival of a mil; and Take Me Out, which won the award for bt revival of a play. Take Me Out featured gay in Jse Tyler Fergon and a much talked about scene of full ontal male nudy. Company is notable for swchg the genr of the protagonist (played by Katra Lenk) and the recent passg of s creator, Stephen Sondheim, 91, who was arguably Broadway’s greatt gay trailblazer.
TONY AWARDS: GAY, BLACK PLAY NAMED BT MIL, FIRST NON-BARY WNER AND JENNIFER HUDSON GETS EGOT
Company’s Patti LuPone won for supportg actrs a mil (this is her third Tony), and LuPone’s -star Matt Doyle, who is gay, picked up bt supportg actor.
The Lehman Trilogy took out five Tony Awards, cludg the prize for the lead performance of Simon Rsell Beale, who is gay. “I felt unseen, I felt unheard, I felt misunrstood, and I jt wanted to create a ltle b of a life raft for myself as a Black gay man to try to jt get through the day. Jackson celebrated Black gay reprentatn and also enuraged artists to “stay on their grd, ” addg that “ our hearts we’re dog the very bt work we n do.
“I jt wanted to create a ltle b of a life raft for myself as a Black gay man to jt get through the day. ” DeSantis has ma headl for his passg of laws like the Don’t Say Gay bill durg his time office. ” Marcia Gay Harn directly took a shot at DeSantis’ Don’t Say Gay Bill by sayg, “I’m Marcia — and no matter what state we’re we n always say Gay — Harn, ” she said.
TONY AWARDS BLEEP OUT (RECLAIMED!) GAY SLUR
“I am Marcia – and no matter what state we're we n always say Gay – Harn”#TonyAwards. Another mil stead won five, cludg bt mil, bt director and bt actor: Fun Home, the gayt show on Broadway this season, and absolutely the Home is an adaptatn of rtoonist and Bechl tt popularizer Alison Bechl's graphic memoir, also lled Fun Home. The tle is a reference to the funeral home her father owned and operated, her father (played by Tony wner Michael Cerveris) beg a closeted gay man.
Fun Home is the gayt show on Broadway this season. Brooks Ashmanskas plays an unfortunate character that seems anti-gay, but is "given away" as a gay man by his mannerisms. Michael Arn, who won for his directn of Para, was bleeped by CBS when he ed a slur for gay men: "Growg up, I was lled the f-word more tim than I n remember, and now all I n say is that I'm a f**** wh a Tony.
Brace yourself for the shocker of last night's Tony awards: There are gay people the theater! Even openly gay people! So back to the Tonys, which were splashy, wty, and wise, wh so many LGBT bs was almost like a televised versn of the pier dance on Gay Pri.