The Boys the Band: What Was Alan's Secret (Is He Gay)?

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Alan Gay OBE was born and brought up the North East, near Newstle and me to study BA (Hons) Enomics and Public Policy at what was then Leeds Polytechnic 1975.

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Thanks to fundg om the Culture Revery Fund, the chary survived the panmic, and the time has e to hand the posn over to a new Chair, Alan Gay, who has been a Board member for the past five years.

After beg pated nearly three years ago, the Freedom Bridge Leeds' gay district has quickly bee the most inic LGBT image the cy. But due to the reprsive Labouchere Amendment at the time, which crimalised "gross cency" cludg homosexualy, he fled to Sicily, where he built a villa that is now a historic hoe mm, and ntued his work the art world. The perd drama foc on the gay scene of the sixti, centerg on them like self-loathg, closeted sexualy, nflict over monogamy, and ternalized homophobia.

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Bee Alan don’t know that Micheal is gay and that there is to be a party wh five other gay men , he tri to ph their meetg to the next day. Is Alan Gay? But, none of prov that Alan is gay.

What do give a ht about his closeted life is the ltle thgs like him fdg Hank attractive (somethg that a straight man wouldn’t normally say about another, pecially the 60s), his persistence to see the party through even though he behav towards the urse of events a very distasteful manner, and the way he explos at Emory when the latter suat that he is gay. However, nothg is absolute proof for or agast his gayns. Even if Alan is gay, don’t look like he will be takg the same road that Hank took.

Netflix's The Boys the Band follows a group of gay iends brought together by the birthday of Harold (Zachary Quto) at the apartment of Michael (Jim Parsons) 1968 New York, which is terpted by the arrival of Michael's straight llege iend Alan (Brian Hutchison) who sperately ask to see him. Michael spirals to an alholic fog and be creasgly temptuo towards his iends, before accg Alan of beg a closeted homosexual.

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And potedly, Alan do not "act gay": he is, for all tents and purpos, an terloper on the group om the society that ostraciz and vilifi their existence.

His homophobia is an extensn of the general feelgs of the tim and his threat to the gay characters is a reflectn of their anxiety over appearg to be out public. And of urse, Michael believ that he is gay, which is ccial bee his honty is a ctch for the whole play.