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WH AN ENTIRE ST OF OPENLY GAY ACTORS, THE BOYS THE BAND ARE BACK — AND ON NETFLIX

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In both s rnatns as a 1968 off-Broadway play and 1970 film, Mart Crowley's The Boys the Band is an exceptnally pneerg gay text. Featurg ne gay characters who meet (and unravel) at an apartment to celebrate one of their birthdays, was one of the first reprentatns of gay life to get any sort of mastream attentn.

As part of Netflix's al wh the gay reprentatn mache that is Ryan Murphy, and followg s 2018 revival on Broadway, The Boys the Band buts on the streamer September 30th. And somethg that shouldn't seem novel or remarkable, all of the men I jt mentned are openly gay themselv.

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"The fact they were all out gay men rms the way the story gets told. "I thk that there are certa tths about gay inty that are , " Mantello says.

" Mantello says that for younger gay viewers g to the text for the first time, he thks 's important that The Boys The Band teach them "where we me om and how thgs have evolved. "There's a percentage of gay men who fd this a problematic text, " Mantello says. Where I found that an olr generatn, particularly of gay men — aga, not scientific, but — have real issu wh .