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- WHAT’S NEXT FOR THE GREAT GAY PLAY? EVERYTHG.
- THE BT GAY HOOK-UP SPOTS NYC
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- CATEGORY: GAY
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AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTCric’s NotebookIn recent shows, ias of gayns are expandg, bg and disappearg all at WisemanI don’t know whether was bee my parents were jt generally open-md, or bee they had a specific, kdly yet mortifyg agenda, but one of the first Broadway plays they took me to, June of 1977, was way too gay for fort. The first phas of the gay play, ccial their moment, which broadly speakg enpassed the send half of the 20th century, are over. Some, like “A Strange Loop” and “Fat Ham, ” dramatize how the experience of racism amplifi that of homophobia, and vice fy expectatns by makg sexual orientatn a distctly sendary ncern among characters who “happen to be” gay or lbian, as “A Case for the Existence of God” and “At the Weddg.
When a (male) love tert enters the picture, and they sg Katy Perry’s “I Kissed a Girl” as a duet, you feel somethg new has happened, as ntroversy melts to a blissful cloud of nonbary bubble is the equalizg, homogenizg fluence of pop culture at work — an fluence that some queer people unrstandably mistst. Jackson’s “A Strange Loop” go further, makg the cross-pollatn of inty the prime source of s nflict, as the ma character nonts both the homophobia of his Black fay and the racism of his queer one.
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(One of the songs is lled “Exile Gayville. ) Its body, race and orientatn issu are left a kd of stalemate that suggts what might happen if a foundatnal gay play like “The Boys the Band” (which had only one Black character) were multiplied fun hoe mirrors ad fum.
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That the Hamlet figure, lled Juicy, is Black and gay, wh an termtent csh on a Laert-like iend, suggts that the queer theme will domate, yet don’t; “Fat Ham” is really a play about Black masculy and, even more broadly, the vlent herance all men mt renounce. ” Beltran portrays a gay Black man hopg to adopt the young girl he’s been Klwich/The New York TimMy other favore queer plays of the past year likewise offer no bands; their gay characters (there are still far too few lbian on) operate as if their gayns were mostly ternal and pletely irrelevant.
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Hunter’s heartbreakg “A Case for the Existence of God, ” that turns out to be an illn, as a gay Black man, after fosterg a ltle girl for more than three years, fds his plan to adopt her undone at the last mute. If there are subtle ways which their sexual inti affect their character or behavr, they were too subtle for me; miss a le or two and you may not even know that gayns is a part of their makp at mak sense plays about cris that threaten to oblerate a person entirely: genr, race, orientatn and all. Francis, the closeted llege stunt “Gemi, ” probably did; if he lived through AIDS, I expect he achieved full five-star gay privilege, plete wh marriage, children and Crate & Barrel chee boards.
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"My latt play is the most up-ont gay play I've ever wrten -- maybe there's somethg the air, " says Jordan Harrison about Log Cab, currently nng at Playwrights Horizons. Tera Lotz's She Calls Me Firefly at Soho Playhoe foc on a young man a gay bar Kentucky facg up to his mons but, unlike gay plays past, his homosexualy has nothg to do wh his problems.
"I would classify shows like The Boys the Band as gay plays, but now our morn sensibily has shifted om gay to queer culture, " adds S.
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Acrdg to Gelman, Afterglow is a "queer" play, not a gay one, bee, "I nsir a gay play as havg a checklist: Someone dyg of HIV/AIDS; someone alg wh g out; someone alg wh discrimatn or gay bashg, " he explas. It tells the story of two married terracial upl -- a pair of gay men and their two lbian pals -- and their stggle to accept a mutual iend who is a transgenr man.
The ia for the play began, Harrison says, when he started hearg the way his gay and lbian iends talked about transgenr rights. " By 2013 they had done , and by 2015 gay marriage was legal throughout the U.
"It was exhilaratg, " Harrison says, "but I started to observe the growg pas of gay assiatn. " Set between 2012 and 2016, Log Cab opens wh Ezra (Jse Tyler Fergon of Morn Fay fame), who's gay, triumphantly celebratg the right to marry.
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Although Harrison and his peers are examg LGBTQ life through a morn-day lens, they've certaly been fluenced by the gay plays that me before.
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Harrison didn't learn about The Boys the Band, about a group of gay men at a birthday party that scends to self-loathg, until he was at Stanford Universy, where he me out hman year. He saw a clip om the 1970 movie versn The Celluloid Closet, a documentary about the pictn of homosexualy Hollywood. He also not that all 15 of his plays (cludg Marjorie Prime, Maple and Ve and The Amatrs) "have at least one gay character, whether or not the other characters know they're gay.
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