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Dan Savage Recounts First Trip To A Chicago Gay Bar

Posted 08.28.2011

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As part of a new Slate feature closing out Pride Month, eleven prominent gay, lesbian and bisexual writers, including David Rakoff, Alison Bechdel and...

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Creative Cultural Cross Referencing (How to Link Stephen Sondheim to the Original Siamese Twins)

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, Scott Barry Kaufman, Peter Glazer, Bob Merrill, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Conjoined Twins, E. L. Doctorow, Fanny Brice, Stephen Sondheim, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Phd, Anna May Wong: In Her Own Words, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Jule Styne, Nick Arnstein, Flower Drum Song, Erika Chong Shuch, Gentleman Farmers, The Boys in the Band, Douglas Fairbanks, Chang and Eng Bunker, Philip Kan Gotanda, Yunah Hong, Side Show, Together (Wherever We Go), Edna Ferber, The Good Earth, UC Berkeley, Show Boat, Pearl Buck, Catch a Falling Star, Daisy and Violet Hilton, Marlene Dietrich, I Dream of Chang and Eng, Anna May Wong, Gypsy: A Musical Fable, Ragtime, Mart Crowley, The Thief of Baghdad, The Toll of the Sea, Funny Girl, Piccadilly, Rags, Film, Arts News
George Heymont

Let's look at two recent events, play a little cultural mashup, and examine the results.

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Gay Icons and American Dreams in New Documentary: Making the Boys

Penelope Andrew | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Natalie Wood, Michael Cunninghan, William Friedkin, Edward Albee, Terrence McNally, Mart Crowley, Paul Rudnick, Robert Wagner, Stonewall Riots, Judy Garland, Crayton Robey, Dominick Dunne, Peter White, Laurence Luckinbill, Bette Davis, Lauren Bacall, Roddy McDowall, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Marlene Dietrich, Tony Kushner, Entertainment News
Penelope Andrew

Crayton Robey's ambitious new documentary Making the Boys, about The Boys in the Band, chronicles the life, times and resonance of a cultural phenomenon.

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HuffPost Review: Making 'The Boys'

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

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Marshall Fine

Crayton Robey's documentary Making 'The Boys' chronicles changes in both gay culture and its acceptance by mainstream America, reminding us that 40 years ago, gays and lesbians had fewer civil rights than black people or women.

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Next Fall: Geoffrey Naufft's Top-Drawer Gay Play Moves to Broadway

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oscar Wilde, Cotter Smith, The Temperamentals, The Pride, Next Fall, Alfred Lord Douglas, Terence Rattigan, Sheryl Kaller, Noel Coward, Sean Dugan, Plays, Tennessee Williams, Connie Ray, Patrick Breen, Patrick Heusinger, Salome, Maddie Corman, Present Laughter, Geoffrey Nauffts, Alexi Kaye Campbell, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Jon Marans, Naked Angels, The Mattachine Society, Mart Crowley, The Boys in the Band, Helen Hayes Theatre, Yank!, New York News
David Finkle

Hardly enough can be said about Geoffrey Nauffts's Next Fall, which is both remarkably simple and exceedingly complex.

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The Boys in the Band: Still Offering a Gay Old Time

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jon Levenson, Christopher Innvar, Nick Westrate, Jonathan Hammond, Kevyn Morrow, Transport Group, Aaron Sharff, Kevin Isola, Sandra Goldmark, Homosexual Community, Graham Rowat, Jack Cummings III, Mart Crowley, The Boys in the Band, John Wellmann, Stonewall Inn, New York News
David Finkle

Matt Crowley's dark comedy, The Boys in the Band, opened at Manhattan's Theatre Four on April 14, 1968, little more than a year before the Stonewall Inn fracas.

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