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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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. 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.
ONE ACT GAY PLAYS
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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 *
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.
ASRBIC ACID FREAK – PLAY ABOUT HIV AIDS
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GAY RIGHTS
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11 MOST REALISTIC GAY SEX SCEN THE MOVI AND TV
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.
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.