The director of Call Your Father says his attractn to olr guys exposed a rarely discsed universal tth about gay men.
Contents:
- AGE DIFFERENC GAY COUPL
- IS MY HBAND GAY? SIGNS OF A GAY HBAND
- WHO WAS ALI FAZELI MONFARED? MAN ALLEGEDLY BEHEAD BY HIS FAY FOR BEG GAY
AGE DIFFERENC GAY COUPL
* gay 20 years old *
Jerry Douglas's Tubstrip, a risque edy set a gay bathhoe, was a popular sensatn when produced onstage 1973-1974, the era of gay liberatn and the sexual revolutn. The play, often dismissed by mastream crics but hailed as "funny, sexy, and important" by the gay prs, ran for 140 performanc off-Broadway, then toured to eight ci over ne months, and returned to Broadway starrg the legendary adult film star Casey Donovan the lead role. Dpe s unprecented succs and acclaim, the play was not officially published until wh the but publitn of the script of the play, this edn clus a foreword by Jordan Schildcrout tled "Tubstrip and The Erotic Theatre of Gay Liberatn", which exam the signifince of the play as one of a wave of erotic gay plays (most of them fotten or lost) that emerged between 1969 and 1974.
He went on to have a major reer gay male pornography, directg numero award-wng films between 1989 and 2007, such as More of a Man, Flh & Blood, Dream Team, and Schildcrout is Associate Profsor of Theatre & Performance at SUNY Purchase.
Larry Gilman plays Brian, the gay bathhoe attendant lookg for love the era of sexual liberatn. Lee Barton, reviewg the play for The Advote, lled "funny, sexy, and important, " but wonred whether mastream crics uld "tolerate anythg gay that is so open and healthy.
IS MY HBAND GAY? SIGNS OF A GAY HBAND
Some crics regard the tour as "homosexploatn, " but the Philalphia Enquirer lled "somethg of an event the history of gay liberatn...
Assertg as do not the sickns but the validy of homosexual affectn and homoerotic appeal. One San Francis review praised Tubstrip as an exemplar of gay liberatn, remarkg, "When is the last time you walked out of a play or film about gays and felt good?
WHO WAS ALI FAZELI MONFARED? MAN ALLEGEDLY BEHEAD BY HIS FAY FOR BEG GAY
Revealg that you're lbian or gay marks an important tone your life. More than half of gay men and nearly 40% of lbian women surveyed 2013 said they had e out to iends and fay before age cisn isn't easy for everyone, though. I’m a 52-year-old gay man, and last year was the year that I fally chose to be open about who I am.
She was homophobic. She got so ncerned that fally I admted, "No, I really want to tell you that I'm gay. He dulged me by followg Lra Dern around stead of lookg at the garns, which was fely not the first time she had been stalked by gay men at a garn party.
This kd of thg happened a uple dozen more tim my early I started wrg my short film Call Your Father, I wanted to not jt wre mentary on gay men, but I also wanted to figure out why I was nsistently drawn to guys around that age. I thk 's somethg gay men don't talk about enough. From the moment you realize as a gay man who you are, whether 's a challengg procs or not, you know (maybe subnscly) that a lot of the world hat you.