Contents:
- ANDRé DE SHIELDS AS THE GAY CHARACTER AUGT WILSON LEFT OUT
- THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
ANDRé DE SHIELDS AS THE GAY CHARACTER AUGT WILSON LEFT OUT
Free that imag the gay character that Augt Wilson never wrote. André De Shields starred as Ikoo Douglas, “the olst, gayt, least magil magil negro ever, ” as the script scrib him, who at 99 and on his athbed tells his life story to his longtime iend and sometime lover. Free began wrg years ago wh a qutn: “If a gay man were to be clud the events of the Century Cycle, who would he be?
*Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, Intersex and Asexual.
Aled Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, a Broadway uple who had one of the most famo “lavenr marriag” (a marriage which one or both partners are gay) of their time, were heavily associated wh the Guild Theater s first . Adam Hetrick, “The Work of Broadway’s Gay and Lbian Artistic Communy Go on Display Nov.
THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
14 When the Llie/Lohman Gay Art Foundatn Gallery Prents ‘StageStck: The Magic of Theatre Dign’, ” Playbill, November 14, 2007. “The 1st List of: Gay/Lbian/Bi Indtry People, Both Front and Behd the Camera, ”, May 31, 2013. Gay Activists Alliance Zap at Rad Cy Mic Hall.
The dynamic Lisa Gay Haton was Black Mary. Rarely do gay Black women receive the spotlight, and certaly not the mid-1980s, when the play arrived New York.
And as a gay Black man, he’s fluenced by the Cycle’s nsistent heteronormativy: From , he says, he “took the absence of queerns, the overall nflict that the Black experience n have onstage … and [the ia] that we have a variety of needs and a variety of emotns and reactns.