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Contents:
- ANNOUNCG THE ST OF GAY RD
- LIONHEART GAY THEATRE COMPANY
- THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
- THEATER THE GAY 90S
ANNOUNCG THE ST OF GAY RD
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LIONHEART GAY THEATRE COMPANY
Announcg the st of gay rd.
THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
We’re exced to announce the full st and productn team of our first 2023/2024 productn GAY CARD by Ryan Korell and Jonathan Keebler. June’s Chigo Pri Ftival, one of the largt annual gay pri ftivals the untry, and Chigo Pri Para, which attracts an timated one ln spectators, are among the summer’s stars. Before gay or lbian and AIDS-themed performance art was monplace (except for the equently negative, obte, or stereotypil portrayals), and before gay and lbian playwrights were nomated for Jeff or Tony Awards, Lnheart Gay Theatre Company was prentg performanc addrsg the gay and lbian experience.
THEATER THE GAY 90S
The first Midwt performg arts anizatn to produce gay and lbian works, the all volunteer group unr Rick Pl’s guidance mounted more than 40 origal plays more than 100 performanc om the 1970s to 1994, often donatg proceeds to lbian and gay anizatns. Created by artists who were part of the Send Cy’s Off-Loop theater movement of the early 1970s, Lnheart was tend to be more experimental, more satiric, ls formulaic, more event-oriented than gay theater existg elsewhere. Lnheart was the first pany to perform gay and lbian material on Chigo rad and was the first gay/lbian performance group to be sponsored by the cy.
It prented the world’s first play about AIDS (“One”, by Jeff Hagedorn), had the first gay/lbian Off-Loop unrground h (“Gunsel”), and offered the first play on lbian domtic vlence (“Behd the Curta”). Inductn follows other honors cludg one 1982 om the Gay Amic Unn, the Chambers-Blackwell Internatnal Gay Theatre Award, the Christopher Street Wt Award, and the IVI-IPO Glynn Sudbery Award.