What’s Next for the Great Gay Play? Everything. In recent shows, ideas of gayness are expanding, combining and disappearing all at once. I don’t know whether it was because my parents were just generally open-minded, or because they had a specific, kindly yet mortifying agenda, but one of the first Broadway plays they took me to, in June of 1977, was way too gay for comfort. It was about the closeted son of a Philadelphia family who returns from his fancy New England college to spend the summer at home — which is exactly what I was at that moment. In recent shows, ideas of gayness are expanding, combining and disappearing all at once.

What’s Next for the Great Gay Play? Everything. In recent shows, ideas of gayness are expanding, combining and disappearing all at once. I don’t know whether it was because my parents were just generally open-minded, or because they had a specific, kindly yet mortifying agenda, but one of the first Broadway plays they took me to, in June of 1977, was way too gay for comfort. It was about the closeted son of a Philadelphia family who returns from his fancy New England college to spend the summer at home — which is exactly what I was at that moment. In recent shows, ideas of gayness are expanding, combining and disappearing all at once.

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