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WAS J GAY?—AN EXAMATN OF THE SECRET GOSPEL OF MARK
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After his actg reer failed, he appears to have studied other cult lears and wrten himself the actg role of “Michel” enlightened master (wh a subplot that he is a gay sex-addict predator). Jerry Douglas's Tubstrip, a risque edy set a gay bathhoe, was a popular sensatn when produced onstage 1973-1974, the era of gay liberatn and the sexual revolutn.
The play, often dismissed by mastream crics but hailed as "funny, sexy, and important" by the gay prs, ran for 140 performanc off-Broadway, then toured to eight ci over ne months, and returned to Broadway starrg the legendary adult film star Casey Donovan the lead role. Dpe s unprecented succs and acclaim, the play was not officially published until wh the but publitn of the script of the play, this edn clus a foreword by Jordan Schildcrout tled "Tubstrip and The Erotic Theatre of Gay Liberatn", which exam the signifince of the play as one of a wave of erotic gay plays (most of them fotten or lost) that emerged between 1969 and 1974. He went on to have a major reer gay male pornography, directg numero award-wng films between 1989 and 2007, such as More of a Man, Flh & Blood, Dream Team, and Schildcrout is Associate Profsor of Theatre & Performance at SUNY Purchase.
Lee Barton, reviewg the play for The Advote, lled "funny, sexy, and important, " but wonred whether mastream crics uld "tolerate anythg gay that is so open and healthy.
THE GAY CHURCH
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Some crics regard the tour as "homosexploatn, " but the Philalphia Enquirer lled "somethg of an event the history of gay liberatn... One San Francis review praised Tubstrip as an exemplar of gay liberatn, remarkg, "When is the last time you walked out of a play or film about gays and felt good?
Intertgly, the homosexual muny feels that the tradnal “hetero-normative” J is a reflectn of heterosexual Christians who have read to J their own sexualy, while ignorg the possibily that J was a homosexual.
Rollan McCleary, an Atralian amic who recently wrote a book argug that J and His discipl were gay, was asked if his own homosexualy tated his rearch. You uld also say that heterosexual people have their ey wi shut on the matter, that they don’t want to see that J would have been of a gay disposn….