He got his start at Caffe Co, the birthplace of Off Off Broadway. His first of hundreds of plays, performed there 1964, is a tone of gay theater.
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- ROBERT PATRICK, EARLY AND PROLIFIC PLAYWRIGHT OF GAY LIFE, DI AT 85
- PNEERG GAY PLAYWRIGHT ROBERT PATRICK DI AT 85
- #RIP: “GODFATHER OF GAY THEATER”, PLAYWRIGHT ROBERT PATRICK
- ROBERT PATRICK, EARLY, AND PROLIFIC, PLAYWRIGHT OF GAY LIFE, DI AT 85
- PNEERG GAY PLAYWRIGHT ROBERT PATRICK DI AT 85
- DORIC WILSON, PLAYWRIGHT AND MASTAY OF GAY THEATER, DI AT 72
- TERRENCE MCNALLY, TONY-WNG PLAYWRIGHT OF GAY LIFE, DI AT 81
- TERRENCE MCNALLY, CELEBRATED PLAYWRIGHT WHO CHRONICLED GAY LIV, DI AT 81 OM RONAVIS
ROBERT PATRICK, EARLY AND PROLIFIC PLAYWRIGHT OF GAY LIFE, DI AT 85
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His first of hundreds of plays, performed there 1964, is a tone of gay Patrick wrote hundreds of plays as well as untls songs, poems and short stori, a memoir and at least one LoganRobert Patrick, a wildly prolific playwright who renred gay (and straight) life wh tic w, an open heart and fizzy mp, and whose 1964 play, “The Hnted Host, ” beme a touchstone of early gay theater, died on April 23 at his home Los Angel. Co was not jt nng an unlicensed baret but also a gay hangout, which was illegal the early 1960s. ” It featur Jay, a gay playwright who is hnted by the ghost of his lover, who died by suici.
It predat the gay rights movement and AIDS. ”Its signifince was regnized hdsight as an early example of a work wh a gay person as the hero, and wh them that were universal: love, grief, self-rpect.
PNEERG GAY PLAYWRIGHT ROBERT PATRICK DI AT 85
Patrick's The Hnted Host was one of the first plays wh an admirable gay protagonist. * gay playwright died *
The normal person, the one wh real emotn and real love, was the gay character. Patrick’s 1964 play that beme a touchstone of gay theater. Shewey, his review for The Soho News, scribed as a ic romp about the gay generatn gap as well as “a schematic attack on the valu of the gay male world, chargg that money, youth and bety have bee as terchangeable as, well, T-shirts.
”“Blue Is for Boys” (1987) is a nutty farce about an apartment nverted to a dorm for gay male llege stunts. Patrick told , was disvered durg an Air Force stg operatn the rtroom of a lol hotel that gay servicemen were g as a renzvo spot. For the last or so, he performed a baret act at Pla Queer, a rto variety show held monthly at a bar Los is survived by his sister, Angela Patrice 2014, Henrik Eger of The Seattle Gay News asked Mr.
#RIP: “GODFATHER OF GAY THEATER”, PLAYWRIGHT ROBERT PATRICK
Playwright Robert Patrick, who some lled "the Godfather of Gay Theater", has died. Friends on social media have been mourng the loss and celebratg the life of Patrick, a life that affected many the theater world as well as dienc around the world. Here's a brief list his many acplishments; In 1961 Patrick stopped * gay playwright died *
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Much-produced gay playwright Robert Patrick, known for the groundbreakg 1964 play The Hnted Host and many others, has died at age 85. Air Force, which discharged him for beg gay before he’d pleted basic trag.
ROBERT PATRICK, EARLY, AND PROLIFIC, PLAYWRIGHT OF GAY LIFE, DI AT 85
Much-produced gay playwright Robert Patrick, known for the groundbreakg 1964 play The Hnted Host and many others, has died at age 85. Patrick died … * gay playwright died *
In 1961 New York Cy, one day he walked to Caffe Co, a Greenwich Village ffee shop and performance space popular wh the gay muny. The ma character, gay playwright Jay, had a lover who died by suici, and the lover’s ghost hnts him.
”Patrick eventually wrote hundreds of plays, and he “renred gay (and straight) life wh tic w, an open heart and fizzy mp, ” the Tim reports. Among the more notable on were Kennedy’s Children, about post-1960s disillnment, which end up on Broadway 1975 after productns off-Broadway and London; T-Shirts, an exploratn of gay male culture; and Blue Is for Boys, set a llege dorm rerved for gay stunts.
PNEERG GAY PLAYWRIGHT ROBERT PATRICK DI AT 85
After beg oted om the U.S. ary for beg gay, she beme an early fighter for gay rights and a proment figure the nascent L.G.B.T.Q. rights movement. * gay playwright died *
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DORIC WILSON, PLAYWRIGHT AND MASTAY OF GAY THEATER, DI AT 72
The groundbreakg gay playwright reportedly died a few days after heart surgery. * gay playwright died *
Playwright Robert Patrick, who some lled “the Godfather of Gay Theater”, has died. T-Shirts was first produced 1979, starrg porn star Jack Wrangler, and was later chosen as the openg piece the anthology Gay Plays: A First Des om ’88 are seven one-act plays givg a humoro and emotnal history of gay life AmeriTemple Slave, a novel about the early days of Off-Off-Broadway and gay theatre. In 2010, he produced a DVD of his lecture Caffe Co: Birthplace of Gay March 2014, he gave a solo performance about his reer entled, What Don’t Kill Me Mak a Great Story Later, which featured acpella rendns of many of his origal songs.
Although the very ncept of gay liberatn was unborn for most ‘media monsters’ like me, a few novels found on paperback shelv provcial dgstor, pl ually rogatory cracks about effemate or nrotic gay men and butch or pretent Lbians tossed to stori or movi about Greenwich Village, did ht that along wh creative eedom (and sensive, tellectual pany), the Village might offer some relief om the csant fear of regnn, disvery, and punishment that gayns brought to outlanr verts.
TERRENCE MCNALLY, TONY-WNG PLAYWRIGHT OF GAY LIFE, DI AT 81
“Love! Valour! Compassn!” cemented Mr. McNally as a pivotal Amerin dramatist, a clear-eyed chronicler of gay liv wh a humane and lyril style. * gay playwright died *
I was a southwtern art fairy, and gays outsi major ci had to live totally unrground liv back then. People more remote parts of the untry were vaguely aware of the gay culture New York Cy, but an extremely negative way. We uldn’t jt log on to the ter or turn on the televisn to fd reprentatns of ourselv, we had to triangulate and hypothize om half-hts and sual pretory remarks by New York wrers about Greenwich Village parti and ffee-ho that wh an only half-discerned arty Bohemian environment there might possibly be a ltle more acceptance of homosexuals.
The Co fulfilled the dream of a Bohemian enclave, and at the same time startled wh s undreamed-of possibily of gay aterny as well. Robert Patrick, a wildly prolific playwright who renred gay (and straight) life wh tic w, an open heart and fizzy mp, and whose 1964 play, “The Hnted Host, ” beme a touchstone of early gay theater, died on April 23 at his home Los Angel. Its signifince was regnized hdsight as an early example of a work wh a gay person as the hero, and wh them that were universal: love, grief, self-rpect.
TERRENCE MCNALLY, CELEBRATED PLAYWRIGHT WHO CHRONICLED GAY LIV, DI AT 81 OM RONAVIS
Crowley, who died this year, is gettg overdue regnn for his groundbreakg 1968 slice of gay life. * gay playwright died *
“Blue Is for Boys” (1987) is a nutty farce about an apartment nverted to a dorm for gay male llege stunts. In 2014, Henrik Eger of The Seattle Gay News asked Mr. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTDoric Wilson, Playwright and Mastay of Gay Theater, Di at 72May 15, 2011Doric Wilson, a playwright whose satiril, wisecrackg works are nsired bricks the foundatns of the Off Off Broadway and gay theater movements, died May 7 at his home Manhattan.
He was died of natural , said Barry Childs, admistrative director of Tosos, the gay theater pany that Mr. Among them were “And He Ma a Her, ” which Eve, of Adam and Eve, disvers that men objectify women, and “Now She Danc, ” a tic rhapg of Osr Wil’s trials for “gross cency” the 1890s as the story of Salome and John the Baptist, wh John as a gay rights protter.
In 1974, wh Billy Blackwell, Peter l Valle and John McSpadn, he started Tosos, perhaps the first profsnal theater pany to al openly wh the gay experience. Wilson’s Tosos productns were “The Wt Street Gang, ” a humoro tale of patrons at a shabby wateront bar enunterg Ana Bryant, the sger and anti-gay-rights advote, when she walks through the door; and “Street Theater, ” a edic take on the drag queens, the bar owner, a police officer and other characters ught up the pivotal Stonewall gay-rights uprisg of June 1969. He don’t wre gay theater; he wr queer theater.