or words in describing the plight of its characters. The coarse language and nudity are used for psychological effect as the characters face melodramatic situations,' continued Variety, 'while Birimisa permits the action to develop to logically and sometimes surprising conclusions.'" The play's male nudity and simulations of sex prevented the planned transfer to Off-Broadway, though a 1971 Off-Broadway revival of Georgie Porgie ran for 107 performances. The 1971 revival highlighted mainstream critics' continued resistance to gay plays, even after the Off-Broadway success of Mart Crowley's The Boys in the Band in 1968. One review stated "Georgie Porgie at Greenwich Village's Fortune Theatre is a play written by a homosexual, about a homosexual, with a special interest for homosexuals. This is not to say that it isn't a serious effort. Indeed, it's a well performed attempt to accurately portray the totality of the homosexual experience...[C]hildhood ridicule, repulsion by parental heterosexual relations, brutality and beatings directed against homosexuals, falsified testimony by police vice squads, male prostitution, black and white homosexual attraction, biceps worship, marriage between homosexuals and women are all touched upon...Georgie Porgie, then, is a limited appeal show since so many find the entire subject unpopular and distasteful." Los Angeles Birimisa moved to Los Angeles in 1976. He dismisses the three plays he wrote while living there, A Dress Made of Diamonds and Pogey Bait (both 1976) and A Rainbow in the Night (1978), as inferior to his earlier works. However, A Rainbow in the Night, an autobiographical portrait of two gay men living on the Bowery in 1953, won a 1978 Drama-Logue Award, and Pogey Bait, a comedy based on Birimisa's wartime experience as a gay apprentice seaman, was subsequently produced in Minneapolis, San Francisco, New York City, and Los Angeles. San Francisco Birimisa moved to San Francisco in 1980 and did not write another play for nearly 10 years. While living there, he began a revised version of A Rainbow in the Night called The Man With Straight Hair, which premiered at the Studio at Theatre Rhinoceros in 1994. His one-man play Looking for Mr. America, debuted in San Francisco at Josie's Cabaret and Juice Joint in 1995 and subsequently played in New York at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club. Birimisa performed the show at the age of 71, in the role of a man recounting his lifelong sexual addiction. Dean Goodman's review noted that the play offers "an