The joke goes “you can hardly find a strait play on Broadway anymore,” however, that wasn’t always the case. A lot of devoted theatre artists spent much time in jail and being ridiculed in order to get us our say on the legitimate stage. From obscure hints at homosexuality in such early plays as The Vortex to the promise of a ‘real live gay kiss’ in The Normal Heart to visiting a gay sex …showed first 75 words of 4085 total…

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