The film's director Joe Mantello on his starry adaptatn of the inic gay text.
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- WH AN ENTIRE ST OF OPENLY GAY ACTORS, THE BOYS THE BAND ARE BACK — AND ON NETFLIX
- GET TO KNOW THE GAY CAST OF ‘THE BOYS THE BAND’ WH TWO NEW REVEALG FEATURETT: WATCH
- WHY THE GAY AND BI MEN OF BOYS THE BAND STILL MATTER
- 'THE BOYS IN THE BAND' STILL HAS A LOT TO SAY ABOUT GAY MEN'S LIV IN 2020
WH AN ENTIRE ST OF OPENLY GAY ACTORS, THE BOYS THE BAND ARE BACK — AND ON NETFLIX
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Arts·QueeriThe film's director Joe Mantello on his starry adaptatn of the inic gay film's director Joe Mantello on his starry adaptatn of the inic gay textBack Row: Rob De J, Michael Benjam Washgton, Matt Bomer, Jim Parsons, Zachary Quto, Charlie Carver, Tuc Watks, Andrew Rannells, Brian Hutchison Front: Joe Mantello, Mart Crowley. In both s rnatns as a 1968 off-Broadway play and 1970 film, Mart Crowley's The Boys the Band is an exceptnally pneerg gay text.
GET TO KNOW THE GAY CAST OF ‘THE BOYS THE BAND’ WH TWO NEW REVEALG FEATURETT: WATCH
Featurg ne gay characters who meet (and unravel) at an apartment to celebrate one of their birthdays, was one of the first reprentatns of gay life to get any sort of mastream attentn. As part of Netflix's al wh the gay reprentatn mache that is Ryan Murphy, and followg s 2018 revival on Broadway, The Boys the Band buts on the streamer September 30th.
And somethg that shouldn't seem novel or remarkable, all of the men I jt mentned are openly gay themselv.
"The fact they were all out gay men rms the way the story gets told. "I thk that there are certa tths about gay inty that are , " Mantello says.
WHY THE GAY AND BI MEN OF BOYS THE BAND STILL MATTER
" Mantello says that for younger gay viewers g to the text for the first time, he thks 's important that The Boys The Band teach them "where we me om and how thgs have evolved. "There's a percentage of gay men who fd this a problematic text, " Mantello says. Where I found that an olr generatn, particularly of gay men — aga, not scientific, but — have real issu wh .
'THE BOYS IN THE BAND' STILL HAS A LOT TO SAY ABOUT GAY MEN'S LIV IN 2020
Mart was not wrg about the monolh of gay whe men or gay men.
And Crowley's ath (on March 7th) was followed by two other goliaths among gay men: Terrence McNally (on March 24th) and Larry Kramer (on May 27th). He is also a talented playwright who wrote a play lled Blueprts to Freedom: An O to Bayard Rt which told the story of Civil Rights activist Bayard Rt who was also a gay man. He’s Openly Gay.