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THE 10 BT GAY MILS OF ALL TIME
Gay-themed Broadway mils have e a long way the past fifty years. The on are the bt. * gay lesbian musicals *
In this chronologil list of semal events and selected theatril landmarks, you’ll fd a wi variety of gay, lbian and transgenr characters and stori – om gay men New York stgglg wh self-loathg The Boys the Band to a young lbian North Carola proudly facg her fay The Cake. Subsequently ma to a feature film wh the origal st, The Boys the Band was sthg and unapologetic s ank portrayal of gay men New York. 1969, June 28-July 3: Stonewall Uprisg – Transgenr, gay and lbian patrons of the Stonewall Inn Greenwich Village, NYC, fight back when police raid the tablishment.
1975: The Rz by Terrence McNally(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 3f, 14m) Terrence McNally managed to be both a tradnalist and a pneer wh this uproar 1975 Broadway h; he set his tradnal door-slammg farce a gay bathhoe. Post-Stonewall but pre-AIDS, The Rz celebrated the ee spir of early “Gay Lib” wh joy and high-speed hilary. 1978: Torch Song Trilogy by Harvey Fierste(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 2f, 4m)In 1978, gay “clone culture” was on the rise; many gay Amerins tried to assiate by appearg more “straight, ” and Amerins beme more faiar wh imag of butch gay men.
) “At the height of the post-Stonewall clone era, ” wrote playwright Charl Bch a 2002 article for The Advote, “Harvey [Fierste] challenged both gay and straight dienc to champn an effemate gay man’s longgs for love and fay. The btal portra of gay men’s persecutn Nazi Germany shocked dienc, shed a spotlight on a cril perd gay history, and earned cril acclaim on both sis of the Atlantic.
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In 1934 Berl on the eve of the Nazi cursn, Max and his lover Rudy, both avowed homosexuals, flee persecutn by the murro Nazis. Dperate and on the n, Max asks his own “discreetly” homosexual Uncle Freddie for help, but the olr man offers ltle more than suggtns on how to live a closeted life.
1981: March of the Falsettos by William Fn(Full-Length Mil, Dramatic Comedy / 1f, 3m, 1 boy) Two years after his experimental mil In Troers troduced a gay character named Marv ntemplatg the women (and men) his life, William Fn expand Marv’s universe the one-act mil March of the Falsettos, which premiered at Playwrights Horizons on May 20, 1981. Wrten before AIDS reached the public nscns (and premierg jt two days after the first published report of what was later lled AIDS) Fn’s nrotic, lightful mil celebrat gay fai, therapy, Jewishns and personal growth wh no ht of the panmic to e. The show also troduced a powerful and endurg gay anthem; “I Am What I Am, ” which celebrat gay inty, beme the soundtrack for generatns of LGBTQ+ protts, march and celebratns.
A barely fictnalized acunt of Larry Kramer’s life experience as -founr of GMHC and ACT-UP, the play ncerns Ned Weeks, a gay activist enraged at the difference of public officials and the gay muny. Through several further llaboratns, cludg Brave S: Another Lbian Tragedy, The Secretari, Bris of the Moon and Oedip at Palm Sprgs, The Five Lbian Brothers ntued to create and perform over the next two s, a time when news of gay men and AIDS often overshadowed stori of lbian liv. This first play, Voyage to Lbos, tak a darkly humoro look at the warpg effects of ternalized homophobia and phallo-centrism on the lbian psyche.