Who Was Lynn Riggs, the Gay Cherokee Playwright Behd 'Oklahoma!'? | History | Smhsonian Magaze

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• BEHD ‘OKLAHOMA!’ LI THE REMARKABLE STORY OF A GAY CHEROKEE PLAYWRIGHT

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.