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Contents:

• 1964: THE BIRTH OF GAY THEATER
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
• RSIA LNCH HOMOPHOBIC ‘GUS WHO’S GAY’ REALY TV PETN
• GAY MOSW · CY GUI

1964: THE BIRTH OF GAY THEATER

IF “GAY THEATER” is fed as beg by, for, and about uncloseted gay people, then 2014 arguably marks the 50th anniversary of the genre’s existence. In 1964, spe a social climate of homophobia that pervad Amerin life for the send third of the 20th century, two one-act plays prented Off-Off-Broadway at the Caffe Co revolutnized how gay characters uld be reprented theatrilly.

THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW

Produced a readg of “Hnted Host” 2008 an eveng honorg Robert Patrick for his ntributn to gay theater over the past five s. The plays marked a major cultural turng pot, nsirg the outright censorship that gay playwrights faced the precedg s. At the height of the Pansy Craze the late 1920s, Mae Wt penned The Drag, a “social problem” play that argued for sympathetic treatment of homosexuals.

RSIA LNCH HOMOPHOBIC ‘GUS WHO’S GAY’ REALY TV PETN

Dranian measur om Cy Hall, cludg the passage of New York Cy’s 1927 “padlock bill, ” prohibed homosexual subject matter on the Broadway stage.

A few years later, the Hays Co of 1934 banned imag of homosexualy on the Hollywood screen. Consequently, censorship of gay them theater and film was the norm the U. Although Doric Wilson had wrten gay characters historil settgs for the Caffe Co as early as 1961 (Now She Danc!

GAY MOSW · CY GUI

Satirized the trial of Osr Wil sympathetilly), the Wilson and Patrick one-acts were unique that both featured gay characters set the prent time who were not only open, but boisteroly fiant.