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Contents:
- THE 10 BT GAY MILS OF ALL TIME
- OPN: ARE MILS ONLY FOR GAY MEN?
- WHAT’S NEXT FOR THE GREAT GAY PLAY? EVERYTHG.
- WHY IS THE THEATER SO MEANGFUL TO GAY PEOPLE?AN INTERVIEW WH JORDAN ROTH.
- QUEERLY MIL; WHY THE GAYS LOVE MIL THEATRE
THE 10 BT GAY MILS OF ALL TIME
Gay-themed Broadway mils have e a long way the past fifty years. The on are the bt. * is it gay to like musicals *
“Mils are gay”.
Why is that ’s okay for a grown man to still like the rtoon versn of Aladd, but when ’s on stage ’s sudnly “gay”? And if is the se that mils really are gay, why is that?
Neil Patrick Harris at the Tony Awards sgg “It’s not jt for gays anymore”. When people say mils are gay, they often e the word “gay” as an sult. It shouldn’t be ed as an sult and if you’re a straight male who lov mils you shouldn’t take people llg your favoure pastime gay as an sult.
OPN: ARE MILS ONLY FOR GAY MEN?
* is it gay to like musicals *
It is however the se that gay men are well-reprented the mil theatre world, while straight men seem to be unr-reprented. Yet, if you add mic to you get L Misérabl, which apparently is gay.
But if you add mic to you get The Phantom of the Opera, which, you gused , is gay. Why is that addg mic to a story mak so gay?
Was he gay? So is there anythg herently gay about mils? It’s okay if you genuely don’t like mils, but don’t jt dismiss them as “gay” jt bee you don’t like them.
WHAT’S NEXT FOR THE GREAT GAY PLAY? EVERYTHG.
I n unrstand them not enjoyg obvly gay on like Mame and Gypsy, that feature agg divas, but most hate any type of mil, perd. Is the dancg? * is it gay to like musicals *
But I promise you that unls you go see an extremely girly or specifilly LGBT-oriented mil, when you walk out you will no longer serly believe that all mils are gay. If my rant isn’t nvcg enough, jt check out this milized explanatn by Tony Award wng actor Neil Patrick Harris, who ironilly enough, is gay. From the actual mic to the fashn to the gay ins that spire , elements of our stori n be found wh pizzazz and granur.
Rocketman and Bohemian Rhapsody are the bpics of gay rock 'n roll in Elton John and bisexual lead sger of Queen, Freddie Mercury. Cabaret and The Wizard of Oz birthed gay ins: Judy Garland and Liza Melli. Hairspray and Rocky Horror Picture Show also birthed gay inic characters Tracy Turnblad and Doctor Frank-n-Furter.
Dpe the stereotype that the gays love the theater, Thk Queerly reports that, historilly, the LGBTQ+ were socially accepted when they were micians and stage actors. Elton officially me out the late 1990s, but what mak him a gay legend is his advocy for the LGBTQ+ muny. Rocketman shows the path fed by Elton for other micians and gay ins.
WHY IS THE THEATER SO MEANGFUL TO GAY PEOPLE?AN INTERVIEW WH JORDAN ROTH.
Our first gay in on this list, Miss Liza Mnelli stars as Sally Bowl the film adaptatn of Cabaret. Dorothy, portrayed by the ultimate gay in Judy Garland, is a girl wh a sense of adventure borg old Kansas. Unlike many Broadway leads, Tracy is fat, yet that’s what mak her such a pivotal gay in.
QUEERLY MIL; WHY THE GAYS LOVE MIL THEATRE
AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTCric’s NotebookIn recent shows, ias of gayns are expandg, bg and disappearg all at WisemanI don’t know whether was bee my parents were jt generally open-md, or bee they had a specific, kdly yet mortifyg agenda, but one of the first Broadway plays they took me to, June of 1977, was way too gay for fort. The first phas of the gay play, ccial their moment, which broadly speakg enpassed the send half of the 20th century, are over. Some, like “A Strange Loop” and “Fat Ham, ” dramatize how the experience of racism amplifi that of homophobia, and vice fy expectatns by makg sexual orientatn a distctly sendary ncern among characters who “happen to be” gay or lbian, as “A Case for the Existence of God” and “At the Weddg.
When a (male) love tert enters the picture, and they sg Katy Perry’s “I Kissed a Girl” as a duet, you feel somethg new has happened, as ntroversy melts to a blissful cloud of nonbary bubble is the equalizg, homogenizg fluence of pop culture at work — an fluence that some queer people unrstandably mistst. Jackson’s “A Strange Loop” go further, makg the cross-pollatn of inty the prime source of s nflict, as the ma character nonts both the homophobia of his Black fay and the racism of his queer one.
(One of the songs is lled “Exile Gayville. ) Its body, race and orientatn issu are left a kd of stalemate that suggts what might happen if a foundatnal gay play like “The Boys the Band” (which had only one Black character) were multiplied fun hoe mirrors ad fum. That the Hamlet figure, lled Juicy, is Black and gay, wh an termtent csh on a Laert-like iend, suggts that the queer theme will domate, yet don’t; “Fat Ham” is really a play about Black masculy and, even more broadly, the vlent herance all men mt renounce.