Gay History the Age of Grdr: Gabriel Ebert Go Gently Down the Stream

Contents:

• GAY HISTORY THE AGE OF GRDR: GABRIEL EBERT GO GENTLY DOWN THE STREAM
• REVIEW: ‘GENTLY DOWN THE STREAM,’ A ROMANCE AND A GAY HISTORY TOUR
• IS GABRIEL EBERT GAY?
• GAY HISTORY
• THE 24 HOUR PLAYS IS BACK WH ATO BLANKSON-WOOD, GABRIEL EBERT, MARCIA GAY HARN,SARAH STEELE, ANA VILLAFAñE AND MORE
• GAY HISTORY THE AGE OF GRDR: GABRIEL EBERT GO GENTLY DOWN THE STREAM

GAY HISTORY THE AGE OF GRDR: GABRIEL EBERT GO GENTLY DOWN THE STREAM

Ebert and Fierste play Ruf and Be, two gay men livg London at the turn of the lennium. Ebert is eager to tell this story of idsyncratic gay relatnships and untold gay history wh off-Broadway dienc, but he first shared a few thoughts wh TheaterMania:.

A lot of the play is about gay history — history that hasn't been wrten down and has been margalized. I thk that gay men of my generatn hunger for history that we have heard about, but we don't really know.

He may be jt 28, but this English lawyer is the kd of gay man who’s more terted the stylgs of the baret sger Mabel Mercer than hi-NRG hoe mic.

REVIEW: ‘GENTLY DOWN THE STREAM,’ A ROMANCE AND A GAY HISTORY TOUR

For a show about the transmissn of gay culture, stg the creator and star of the landmark “Torch Song Trilogy, ” the man who wrote the book for “La Cage Aux Foll, ” means that your lead actor’s baggage ( the bt sense of the term) be an tegral part of the Fierste’s distctive croak alone is a gay Protian malee. VioHarvey Fierste and Gabriel Ebert a scene om Mart Sherman's new the fact that “Gently Down the Stream” is by the thor of “Bent, ” the Tony-nomated 1979 drama about the persecutn of gay men by the Nazis, and is directed by Sean Mathias, also the director of that drama’s movie adaptatn.

” Some of the personal remembranc are also tritely lked to epochal disasters gay history, notably the AIDS crisis and the fire at the UpStairs Lounge the French Quarter New Orleans 1973 (a horrific se of arson that is the subject of the Off Broadway mil “The View UpStairs”) Klwich/The New York TimThe years go by, and one day Ruf announc that he’s fallen love wh the performance artist Harry (Christopher Sears). Sherman pats a portra of endurance the face of discrimatn, and of how gay men — well, gay people general, but women do not feature this show bis Mercer and a brief reference to the philanthropist Judy Peabody — formed new fai when their blood on abandoned there are marriage and children, but Be, while awed by this brave new world, is a daily remr of the price that had to be paid. Y, and a Gay History Tour.

IS GABRIEL EBERT GAY?

Nowadays, there is no answer to the qutn -Gabriel Ebert is gay? While folks still say Gabriel Ebert is gay, their ments hold no nsistency or accuracy of any kd.

Although Gabriel Ebert has refed on numero ocsns to beg homosexual, mors are nstantly found on-le. Vooxpopuli manag thoands of famo celebri and 's possible we missed some tails about the qutn - Is Gabriel Ebert gay? " He said, "I so intified wh Erik" and said, "We were both stutterers and had abive fathers, " but he'd never take that next step and say, "And we were both gay.

There was Freric Combs, an actor who played Donald Mart Crowley's The Boys the Band [the semal gay play which Dunne executive produced the movie versn of]. There was a character Mart Crowley based on Domick--Alan, the one who's fightg wh his wife and you're not sure of his lead character, Michael, assum Alan is gay and tri to out him wh a telephone game. At one pot, Alan's hostili about beg a room of open gays out and he asslts the queenit one, Emory.

GAY HISTORY

I want half the dience to thk he's gay and half to thk he's straight.

" The other was Play As Lays, wh Tony Perks as a bisexual or gay movie producer who kills himself.

" Ellen's boyiend at the time was gay.

THE 24 HOUR PLAYS IS BACK WH ATO BLANKSON-WOOD, GABRIEL EBERT, MARCIA GAY HARN,SARAH STEELE, ANA VILLAFAñE AND MORE

As Mart said, "the gayt straight man I've ever met. When straight people are repulsed by gay sex, I don't thk that's necsarily homophobic bee I certaly know gay men who are repulsed by straight sex. But then I also know gay men--back my day when I was my 20s, there were a lot of gays I was datg who were their 30s, and more of them seemed to have been married or had relatnships than my generatn.

GAY HISTORY THE AGE OF GRDR: GABRIEL EBERT GO GENTLY DOWN THE STREAM

Anyway, 1979, Domick spoke at a gay group therapy was lled the Advote Experience--a support group and weekend same year, he wrote a letter to his kids sayg he was gay, but he never mailed . He did not say, "It's my homosexualy that's eatg away at me, " he said, "It's the secret of " that was dog did he change his md about sendg the letter? I was workg at Buzz magaze and a short profile me about Domick and talked about him beg gay, and an edor said, "He's not out.

If was prted that Roddy was gay, he'd be very upset, but if you met him and you were gay, was the topic of nversatn.