David DeWt reviews five one-act plays celebratg gay pri Program B of Uny Ft: Cherry Reds by Gary Garrison, Maggie Lally directg; Hidg the Pk by Mrali Kamath, Eddie Lew directg; Somethg Ak to a Rtoratn by Jim Fzmorris, Dennis Smh directg; Red Wa by Amy A Kird, Donna Jean Fogel directg; and Too Much of Me by Jam Magr, Dennis Smh directg (M)
Contents:
- PLAYS WH GAY / LGBTQ THEM...
- ONE ACT GAY PLAYS
- THEATER REVIEW; 5 ONE-ACTS TO CELEBRATE GAY PRI
- ASRBIC ACID FREAK – PLAY ABOUT HIV AIDS
- GAY RIGHTS
- 11 MOST REALISTIC GAY SEX SCEN THE MOVI AND TV
PLAYS WH GAY / LGBTQ THEM...
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The Black EyeA Short Playby Jim DalglishWhen an agg gay man asks a street-wise kid if he needs a lift home, is he prepared to go where the dangero young man is about to take him? Her teenage grandson, who had been beaten and btally murred bee someone thought he was gay, ph every annoyg button to enurage his grandmother, who has shut herself off om everythg, to answer the door.
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And 's on the stage as well, Fourth Uny's ftival of one-act plays, spired by Gay Pri Month and staged at the Bank Street Theater.
ONE ACT GAY PLAYS
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Still, Mrali Kamath's play explor a revolutnary qutn, at least for an assured gay man: What if he wants to experiment wh heterosexualy to fd out what 's like the mastream? ''Hidg the Pk'' suggts he'd be the lonelit, most margalized character Uny Ft, a program that explor the strengths and limatns, part and parcel, of any simple fn of ''gay muny. A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn B, Page 17 of the Natnal edn wh the headle: THEATER REVIEW; 5 One-Acts to Celebrate Gay Pri.
Mark, a typil gay man livg wh this new form of 1980’s plague, has begun to vt all sorts of cur om takg a huge volume of asrbic acid every day (to boost his immune system) to payg a quack doctor known as Dr Purgs to cure him wh all manner of weird and wonrful dgs. Marv’s Fetish achieved falist stat Tennsee Williams’ prtig one-act play ftival New Orleans, and has been hailed as one of the most origal two-character gay plays that has ever been wrten and as one of the most clever and unpredictable psychologil thrillers of recent tim.
Level of difficulty: 8/10 – a challengg but fulfillg script that morphs om a light script to a heavier psychologil gay thriller as progrs. In this transgenr edy script, Shannon has fallen sperately love wh a gay man, who then out and then dumps her for a famo gay TV star. For Your Viewg PleasureWe've almost reached the pot where gay characters on televisn are no longer a taboo, and dare we say mastream.
THEATER REVIEW; 5 ONE-ACTS TO CELEBRATE GAY PRI
The gay rights movement the Uned Stat began the 1920s and saw huge progrs the 2000s, wh laws prohibg homosexual activy stck down and a Supreme Court lg legalizg same-sex marriage. * gay one acts *
) As a gay teenager still the closet, the muted portrayals of queer sexualy only furthered the ia that my inty was somethg I need to hi. ©Strand Releasg/Courty Everett CollectnHold the ManSounds a b like a gay cliché, but this 2015 film (which is also based on a memoir by Atralian actor Timothy Conigrave) highlights the romance between a high school drama stunt and classic one particular r sex scene, they utter the words "Ahh, gentle, " and "Slowly—I said slowly! “By unrstandg their same-sex sexual practice as meangls, accintal, or even necsary, straight whe men n perform homosexual ntact heterosexual ways…Ward argu that the real reason ‘straight’ men behave the ways is to ‘reaffirm rather than challenge their genr and racial inty’ and ‘to leverage whens and masculy to thentite their heterosexualy the ntext of sex wh men.
What Ward don’t addrs is whether the straight men are actually straight or some other sexual orientatn — such as mostly straight, bisexual, or gay--nial/hidg. The Early Gay Rights Movement In 1924, Henry Gerber, a German immigrant, found Chigo the Society for Human Rights, the first documented gay rights anizatn the Uned Stat. Army service World War I, Gerber was spired to create his anizatn by the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee, a “homosexual emancipatn” group ’s small group published a few issu of s newsletter “Friendship and Freedom, ” the untry’s first gay-tert newsletter.
Ernment signated Gerber’s Chigo hoe a Natnal Historic Pk TriangleCorbis/Getty ImagHomosexual prisoners at the ncentratn mp at Sachsenhsen, Germany, wearg pk triangl on their uniforms on December 19, gay rights movement stagnated for the next few s, though LGBT dividuals around the world did e to the spotlight a few example, English poet and thor Radclyffe Hall stirred up ntroversy 1928 when she published her lbian-themed novel, The Well of Lonels.
ASRBIC ACID FREAK – PLAY ABOUT HIV AIDS
And durg World War II, the Nazis held homosexual men ncentratn mps, brandg them wh the famo pk triangle badge, which was also given to sexual predators.
GAY RIGHTS
Addnally, 1948, his book Sexual Behavr the Human Male, Aled Ksey proposed that male sexual orientatn li on a ntuum between exclively homosexual to exclively Homophile Years In 1950, Harry Hay found the Mattache Foundatn, one of the natn’s first gay rights group. ”Though started off small, the foundatn, which sought to improve the liv of gay men through discsn groups and related activi, expand after foundg member Dale Jenngs was arrted 1952 for solicatn and then later set ee due to a adlocked the end of the year, Jenngs formed another anizatn lled One, Inc., which weled women and published ONE, the untry’s first pro-gay magaze. Post Office, which 1954 clared the magaze “obscene” and refed to liver Mattache Society Mattache Foundatn members rtctured the anizatn to form the Mattache Society, which had lol chapters other parts of the untry and 1955 began publishg the untry’s send gay publitn, The Mattache Review.
That same year, four lbian upl San Francis found an anizatn lled the Dghters of Bilis, which soon began publishg a newsletter lled The Ladr, the first lbian publitn of any early years of the movement also faced some notable setbacks: the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn listed homosexualy as a form of mental disorr followg year, Print Dwight D.
In 1961, Illois beme the first state to do away wh s anti-sodomy laws, effectively crimalizg homosexualy, and a lol TV statn California aired the first documentary about homosexualy, lled The 1965, Dr. In fact, gay men and women New York Cy uld not be served alhol public due to liquor laws that nsired the gatherg of homosexuals to be “disorrly. ”In fear of beg shut down by thori, bartenrs would ny drks to patrons spected of beg gay or kick them out altogether; others would serve them drks but force them to s facg away om other ctomers to prevent them om 1966, members of the Mattache Society New York Cy staged a “sip-”—a twist on the “s-” protts of the 1960s— which they vised taverns, clared themselv gay, and waed to be turned away so they uld sue.
11 MOST REALISTIC GAY SEX SCEN THE MOVI AND TV
They were nied service at the Greenwich Village tavern Juli, rultg much publicy and the quick reversal of the anti-gay liquor Stonewall Inn A few years later, 1969, a now-famo event talyzed the gay rights movement: The Stonewall clanste gay club Stonewall Inn was an stutn Greenwich Village bee was large, cheap, allowed dancg and weled drag queens and homels the early hours of June 28, 1969, New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn.
As -founr of the Gay Liberatn Front, Rivera was known for participatg the Stonewall Rts and tablishg the polil anizatn STAR (Street Transvte Actn Revolutnari).