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Contents:
- PRI SPECIAL: 5 GAY PLAYS IN LONDON
- THE 10 BT GAY MILS OF ALL TIME
- GO WT! GAY STORYL ARE DRAWG CROWDS TO THEATR LONDON'S WT END AND GE
- GAY LONDON, LGBTQ+ CLUBS AND EVENTS
PRI SPECIAL: 5 GAY PLAYS IN LONDON
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22 Augt 2023 to 9 September 2023 Dumbledore Is So Gay TicketsWner of the VAULT Ftival Origs Award, Dumbledore Is So Gay is about g of age, g out, and the joys and trials of beg a fan boy.
THE 10 BT GAY MILS OF ALL TIME
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Until 16 September 2023 Sleepg Bety Tak A Prick TicketsSleepg Bety Tak A Prick at Charg Cross Theatre 23 November 2023 to 13 January 2024 Strangers Between TicketsThe Goln Goose Theatre is revivg classic Atralian drama Strangers Between by Tommy Murphy, which looks at the highs and lows of growg up gay morn Atralia. In the first half of the 20th century, you uld be arrted for stagg a gay play. Here are ten of the plays that have ntributed to LGBTQ+ theatre's rich Drag by Mae WtThe Drag follows Rolly, a gay man who marri a woman to hi his sexualy, and the nsequenc of this.
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GO WT! GAY STORYL ARE DRAWG CROWDS TO THEATR LONDON'S WT END AND GE
Gay-themed Broadway mils have e a long way the past fifty years. The on are the bt. * gay theatre plays london *
Bluefish Cove is a “gay woman’s haven” where a group of seven lbians are spendg their annual holiday. Bt plac for LGBTQ+ theatre LondonBent by Mart ShermanMart Sherman’s harrowg play sh a light on the persecutn of gay men durg the Holot. Max (played by Ian McKellen the origal n at the Royal Court) is a gay man Berl the 1930s, taken to Dach wh his boyiend Rudy after the Night of Long Kniv.
After Rudy is btally beaten to ath, Max falls love wh an openly gay man the mp. Bent remas one of the bt known gay plays theatre history and ntu to spire revivals. It is by no means as ntroversial as many plays wh central male gay them, but has to work doubly hard bee of this lack of other lbian storyl on the stage, somethg that is dire need of changg and that Fun Home self uld In Ameri by Tony Khner The exploratn of AIDS 1980s Ameri an epic unrtakg, and Angels Ameri is a suably epic play.
GAY LONDON, LGBTQ+ CLUBS AND EVENTS
Hot on the heels of the Angels Ameri revival, Matthew Lopez asks what is like for the next generatn of young gay men New York, growg up and livg the shadow of the AIDS crisis.
Penned by Tarell Alv McCraney (whose tobgraphil play beme spiratn for the Osr wng Moonlight) this 2008 play talks about what means to be black and to be gay.