LGBTQ mic history is so much more than a timele of who me out when and which songs beme gay anthems -- ’s also about the artists who weren’t aaid to be themselv eras when dog so often had real risks attached.
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GAY! A GAY MIL
Gay! A Gayook Productn mil aimed at a homosexual dience which appeared New Wimbledon Theatre 2007. Set the Thatcher years, the play follows the story of a young man tryg to fd his sexualy. The mil boasts a star-studd st, wh Andie Vg as Vibroman, Brian Hampton... * gay musical called gay *
But is only the past fifty years or so that tuners have actually featured openly gay characters onstage—and the rult has been some of the bt Broadway shows of all time.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY THEATER, THREE ACTS
If this same-sex central romance broke new ground, however, the show’s sre—by show-tune master Jerry Herman (Hello, Dolly!)—wears s classic Broadway sound like a sash of honor, om the openg para of cross-drsed beti to drag queen Zaza’s first-act fale (and stant gay-pri anthem) “I Am What I Am” through the celebratory “The Bt of Tim.” Revived on Broadway 2004 and 2010, the old girl has held up surprisgly well as a morn twist on nostalgia.