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Contents:
- THE 10 BT GAY MILS OF ALL TIME
- THE GAY SONGWRERS WHO SECRETLY LED THE UNTRY CHARTS ARE READY FOR THE SPOTLIGHT
- A STRANGE LOOP REVIEW: BLACK, BIG, GAY WRER GETS NAVEL-GAZY AND TUNEFUL
- THE GAY ’90S MIL
- AMY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT: DONNA GAY ANRSON
THE 10 BT GAY MILS OF ALL TIME
Michael R. Jackson's Tony and Pulzer Prize-wng mil is about a young Black gay mil theater wrer named Usher, who works as an her at a Broadway show — jt like Jackson once did. * musical writer gay *
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THE GAY SONGWRERS WHO SECRETLY LED THE UNTRY CHARTS ARE READY FOR THE SPOTLIGHT
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A STRANGE LOOP REVIEW: BLACK, BIG, GAY WRER GETS NAVEL-GAZY AND TUNEFUL
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And I wasn't really out at school except amongst, like, a sort of secret society of other Black gay boys, for the most part, and other, you know, queer kids who were around . So was, like, a strange sort of sir-outsir thg where, like, a bunch of knew that the others were gay, but we also all were hidg om, like, our Let's take a short break here, and then we'll talk some more.
THE GAY ’90S MIL
“A Strange Loop” is a mil about a big, gay black guy who is stgglg to wre a mil about a big, gay black guy who is stgglg..... Michael R. Jackson, the mil’s talented book wrer, poser, lyricist and vol arranger, scrib himself as a big, gay black guy; he’s been stgglg to wre “A… * musical writer gay *
And the play, Usher is wrg a mil about a young, Black, gay mil theater wrer named Usher, who works at a Broadway show and is wrg a mil about a young, Black, gay mil theater wrer named me out to your parents when you were 17. JACKSON: So my father did ask me if I was attracted to him, but he meant that a kd of rhetoril - that was, like, a rhetoril move bee his unrstandg of, like, homosexualy, which is that - I thk - this is me sort of analyzg what that moment was - was that don't make sense.
AMY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT: DONNA GAY ANRSON
Director/wrer David Galligan has filtered much of the gay and lbian experience through this fast-paced mil revue, featurg 22 songs and sketch performed by an outstandg six-member ensemble. Galligan's stagg, gmented by the choreography of Tony Kaye and Kay Cole, is sparse but highly ventive, effectively highlightg the reali and absurdi, humor and pathos of livg an "alternative" liftyle. The mil numbers were provid by many of L.A.'s most gifted wrers, cludg the legendary Billy Barn, whose irreverent openg number, "The Gay '90s," featur the ensemble full turn-of-the-century regalia. The stum are quickly disrd, however, as the sually attired st of three women and three men segue to a seri of illumatg mil and spoken vigt. * musical writer gay *
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I n also tell you that some of the actns that they've taken over the years signaled to me that they are not supportive of a que - of a lot of anti-gay ias and that they have evolved some way, even if 's a small way for them, and that we - you know, we are very What's your parents' reactns to the show and to how Usher's parents are portrayed? And I was somewhat on the outsi of that even then among, like, my peer so then when I me to New York where I had been told that I was gog to have, like, the time of my life as a gay man and that I was gog to have all this sex and that was gog to be jt like a grand, old party, what I learned is that I was at the bottom of the food cha as far as that go. And I had to really orient myself to what meant to be a gay man New York Cy at that time, as somebody who was short and fat and did not have any of the sort of physil attribut that would make one sort of popular , you know, gay, male, sexual scene as I unrstood or as I knew how to be.
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Somethg that I've been thkg about recently is that I did not have any gay elrs, and so there was no one to tell me what to do or where to go or how to do anythg. And so every sort of experience that I had as a gay man New York was by me makg mistake after mistake after mistake, or like - or jt fumblg around kd of the dark, tryg to figure out how to be, how to f .