A fascatg look at the gay and lbian fluence on the Amerin stage by an ternatnally-regnized thory on the topicFrom the genteel female impersonators of the 1910s to the r drag queens of La Cage Aux Foll, om the men of The Normal Heart to the women of Fun Home, and om Eva Le Gallienne and Tallulah Bankhead to Tennsee Williams and Nathan Lane, Gays On Broadway ftly chr
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THE 10 BT GAY MILS OF ALL TIME
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AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTCric’s NotebookIn recent shows, ias of gayns are expandg, bg and disappearg all at WisemanI don’t know whether was bee my parents were jt generally open-md, or bee they had a specific, kdly yet mortifyg agenda, but one of the first Broadway plays they took me to, June of 1977, was way too gay for fort.
WHAT’S NEXT FOR THE GREAT GAY PLAY? EVERYTHG.
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The first phas of the gay play, ccial their moment, which broadly speakg enpassed the send half of the 20th century, are over. Some, like “A Strange Loop” and “Fat Ham, ” dramatize how the experience of racism amplifi that of homophobia, and vice fy expectatns by makg sexual orientatn a distctly sendary ncern among characters who “happen to be” gay or lbian, as “A Case for the Existence of God” and “At the Weddg. When a (male) love tert enters the picture, and they sg Katy Perry’s “I Kissed a Girl” as a duet, you feel somethg new has happened, as ntroversy melts to a blissful cloud of nonbary bubble is the equalizg, homogenizg fluence of pop culture at work — an fluence that some queer people unrstandably mistst.
GAYS ON BROADWAY
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Jackson’s “A Strange Loop” go further, makg the cross-pollatn of inty the prime source of s nflict, as the ma character nonts both the homophobia of his Black fay and the racism of his queer one.