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Theater
Kaufman, David | December 19, 1994 issue

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"You show me a happy homosexual and I'll show you a gay corpse." Though it was supposed to be sardonic, this tragic line from the play "The Boys in the Band," has acquired a grim, unintended meaning long after it was uttered by a gay character in 1968, a year before the Stonewall uprising. Even as important and recent a play as Tony Kushner's "Angels in America," is still riddled with self-loathing issues for homosexuals, which begins to explain why it has been more of a success with straight audiences than with gay. The play "Love! Valour! Compassion!" features a lot of camping it up, bitchy humor and extensive full frontal nudity.

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THEATER; GAY characters in drama; KUSHNER, Tony; PERFORMING arts; DRAMA; GAYS
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