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BEHD ‘OKLAHOMA!’ LI THE REMARKABLE STORY OF A GAY CHEROKEE PLAYWRIGHT
In Riggs’ Oklahoma, wasn’t easy to be a small-town Cherokee boy who was not only amb but also gay. As bgrapher Phyllis Cole Brnlich put her 1988 book, Hnted by Home: The Life and Letters of Lynn Riggs, “Newly eed by the regnn of his own homosexual orientatn, he neverthels was nstantly wary of Oklahoma’s judgments.
As a gay man, Vaill found himself intifyg wh the bewilred way Jud mov through the world, tryg to unrstand why people spise him. “When you’re a young gay kid, you don’t know you’re gay, ” Vaill says.
He’d always been fascated by the story of Bce Goff, a gay Tulsa archect who signed some of the cy’s most betiful buildgs. Gay Rights,.