L.A. Gay & Lbian Center’s Deathtrap Has Performance Rights Revoked

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'Deathtrap' nceled after objectns to nudy and gay ntent

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‘DEATHTRAP’ NCELED AFTER OBJECTNS TO NUDY AND GAY NTENT

A Los Angel revival of Ira Lev’s “Deathtrap” has been nceled after the tate of the late thor exprsed objectns to the e of nudy and some of the productn’s gay ntent. Gay and Lbian Center, was to be a remountg of the stagg that ran at the center the ’s tate revoked permissn to stage the murr story, cg an stance of nudy that occurs near the end of first act the center’s stagg, acrdg to Jon Imparato, a producer of the revival.

Gay and Lbian Center said sent an email to the Lev tate attemptg to appeal the cisn. Gay and Lbian Center, said that he terpreted the relatnship between Clifford and Sidney as a sexual one. After his ath, his tate has attempted to stop a number of non-tradnal productns, cludg a stagg of “Wag for Godot” set a post-Hurrine Katra New the se of “Deathtrap, ” the relatnship between the two male protagonists has often been nsted as homosexual.

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Lately says this or yet another celebry is gay, but now also speculate wh somethg halfway like whether Burt Grstead is gay. Gay & Lbian Center’s prevly reported remountg of Ira Lev’s Deathtrap has been nceled. The LGBT muny has ma immense progrs the fight for equaly — as seen the natnwi legalizatn of same-sex marriage this year and the appotment of the Whe Hoe’s first openly transgenr staff member last there is ncern that a placency born of ignorance of the gay rights movement uld be on the horizon.

L.A. GAY & LBIAN CENTER’S DEATHTRAP HAS PERFORMANCE RIGHTS REVOKED

“H the Wall” reviss the fateful night at New York’s Stonewall Inn 1969 that rulted rts by gays, drag queens and transgenr people.

The rts are often regard as the sgle most important event leadg to the morn lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr rights movement. “I thk we’re wnsg that Ameri where we thought we had ma so many stris women’s rights and gay rights and social equaly, and yet seems like we’re takg steps back. The events of the June night said to have started the Gay Liberatn Movement have, sce 1969, bee the stuff of legend, tal passed down about the night when gay men, drag queens and butch dyk stood up for the first time to the homophobic NYPD officers who ma their daily/nightly liv a livg hell.

Propellg the anger that fueled the rts at the Village’s Stonewall Inn were laws so rtrictive that New York Cy bars were forbidn to sell alhol to gays and lbians, same-sex upl uld be arrted for dancg together, drag was illegal, and (how’s this for ridiculo), a woman uld go to jail for not wearg at least three piec of “feme” clothg.

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• Cliff (Adam Silver), the draft-dodgg gay stoner who jt happens to fd himself the midst of history on this day June. • Newbie (Jason Cacer), the latt small-town twk to e h off the b, suse hand, search of his gay inty the big bad cy.

• A-Gay (Burt Grstead), the straight-actg, eply closeted Wall Streeter the hab of vg hot bottoms like Newbie up to his apartment for an afternoon quickie. Pridg over all of the above om their brownstone stoop are sassy Puerto Rin Tano (Roland Ruiz) and his Ain-Amerin partner snap Mika (Blake Young-Founta), the pair of them throwg sha on—and ocsnally a e-hher remark to—jt about anyone who pass by … wh the possible exceptn of the timidatg homophobic Cop (Donnie Smh) who’d like nothg better than to throw the entire Stonewall Inn clientele the slammer. From cute stage newbie Cacer’s sweet yet steadily more nfint Newbie, to soap-star handsome Grstead’s eply nflicted A-Gay, to Ruiz and Young-Founta’s sexy tank-topped gay male Lucy and Ethel, to L.

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