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Contents:
- GAY LONDON, LGBTQ+ CLUBS AND EVENTS
- PRI SPECIAL: 5 GAY PLAYS IN LONDON
- THE BT LGBTQ+ AND GAY CLUBS LONDON
- GAY THEATRE LONDON: HOW THE PAL'S VENU ARE FLYG THE RABOW FLAG
GAY LONDON, LGBTQ+ CLUBS AND EVENTS
Time Out's gui to the bt LGBTQ+ theatre shows across London. Coverg everythg om lbian drama to queer baret to gay theatre classics, here's where to fd the latt LGBTQ+ shows across the cy. * gay plays london *
Okay, there are jt a few dited LGBTQ+ performance venu the cy, cludg gay theatre hubs Above the Stag, Royal Vxhall Tavern and the Kg's Head.
Expect everythg om genre-smashg queer baret to lbian romance to gay theatre classics to exploratns of trans experience.
Until 16 September 2023 Sleepg Bety Tak A Prick TicketsSleepg Bety Tak A Prick at Charg Cross Theatre 23 November 2023 to 13 January 2024 Strangers Between TicketsThe Goln Goose Theatre is revivg classic Atralian drama Strangers Between by Tommy Murphy, which looks at the highs and lows of growg up gay morn Atralia. Deeper and Deeper13 Sept - 7 Oct 2023A New Comedy Drama5 young gay men start sharg a Camn flat the late 90’s. In the first half of the 20th century, you uld be arrted for stagg a gay play.
PRI SPECIAL: 5 GAY PLAYS IN LONDON
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Here are ten of the plays that have ntributed to LGBTQ+ theatre's rich Drag by Mae WtThe Drag follows Rolly, a gay man who marri a woman to hi his sexualy, and the nsequenc of this. As an avid and unrelentg supporter of gay rights throughout her life, Mae Wt ma wav wh The Drag 1927, which she wrote unr pen name Jane Mast. Faiar wh ntroversy followg her prev play Sex, The Drag ed the most outrage for her pictn of homosexualy and cross-drsg.
Wh a st of exclively gay actors om a Greenwich Village club, the play was a huge fancial succs, but was wily panned by crics and shut down due to obsceny laws and never ma to Broadway as planned. Bluefish Cove is a “gay woman’s haven” where a group of seven lbians are spendg their annual holiday. Bt plac for LGBTQ+ theatre LondonBent by Mart ShermanMart Sherman’s harrowg play sh a light on the persecutn of gay men durg the Holot.
Max (played by Ian McKellen the origal n at the Royal Court) is a gay man Berl the 1930s, taken to Dach wh his boyiend Rudy after the Night of Long Kniv. After Rudy is btally beaten to ath, Max falls love wh an openly gay man the mp.
THE BT LGBTQ+ AND GAY CLUBS LONDON
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Bent remas one of the bt known gay plays theatre history and ntu to spire revivals. It is by no means as ntroversial as many plays wh central male gay them, but has to work doubly hard bee of this lack of other lbian storyl on the stage, somethg that is dire need of changg and that Fun Home self uld In Ameri by Tony Khner The exploratn of AIDS 1980s Ameri an epic unrtakg, and Angels Ameri is a suably epic play.
Hot on the heels of the Angels Ameri revival, Matthew Lopez asks what is like for the next generatn of young gay men New York, growg up and livg the shadow of the AIDS crisis. Penned by Tarell Alv McCraney (whose tobgraphil play beme spiratn for the Osr wng Moonlight) this 2008 play talks about what means to be black and to be gay. It remas jt as pertent today, alg wh the stggl that arise om the batn of misogyny and homophobia that are far om beg stamped out today’s society.
GAY THEATRE LONDON: HOW THE PAL'S VENU ARE FLYG THE RABOW FLAG
Disver gay London, wh our guis to all the bt LGBTQ+ live events, shows, clubs and bars the cy. * gay plays london *
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