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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,.
" And he wrote some of the greatt love songs ever, but his own love life took place largely subject of all those statements is Lorenz "Larry" Hart, the gay man who was the primary wrg partner to poser Richard Rodgers the 1920s and '30s, precedg Rodgers's other celebrated llaboratn, wh Osr Hammerste has long held a place the pantheon of great Amerin lyricists, wh songs that display a w and creativy perhaps equaled only by Cole Porter's work. No one disput that he was gay, but tails about this aspect of his life are srce. Goldberg as Lorenz Hart Fallg for Make Believe)Now a new play, havg s world premiere the Los Angel area, aims to enlighten dienc about Hart's gay life a closeted era.