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Thought Pieces
Bob Baker:
Turning Oral Histories into Performance
- How-to make a show written by gay and lesbian seniors
Demian:
Censorship of Gay Plays: An All-American Tradition
- The silencing of breakthrough gay and lesbian plays
Sky Gilbert:
An Icon of Flamboyance
- John Herbert elegy
Erik Haagensen:
Americas Lesbian & Gay Theater Companies: Then and Now
- Cultural havens
Bill Kaiser:
Fritz Klein: Obituary
- Bisexuality researcher and arts patron
Joan Lipkin:
Taking a Village: the GLBT Youth/PFLAG Project
- Staging community involvement
Tim Miller:
Let There be
Pink
Light
- Illuminating Story-Telling
Tokyo Tim
- Dokkyo U. Performance Studies Conference Report
Robert Patrick:
Playhouse Anecdotes
- How it all began
The Gay Ghost
- Gay for pay
Ghost on the Coast
- Spooky profession confession
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List of Robert Patricks plays with gay content.
Gerard Raymond:
Its Queer, Its Here, Its for Everyone
- LGBT theater for wider audiences
Francine L. Trevens:
Old Plays are Gold
- Revealing the wealth of history
Doric Wilson on productions of his own plays:
A Perfect Relationship
And He Made a Her
(and the Caffe Cino)
Forever After
Now She Dances!
Street Theater
The West Street Gang
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List of Doric Wilsons plays with gay content.
Interviews
John W. Gettys:
The Gay Theater of Daniel Curzon
- Interview and biography
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List of Daniel Curzons plays with gay content.
Michael Dale:
Robert Patricks Children: Interview with a Playwright
Robert was a founding member of the Off-Off-Broadway movement,
and the spark that started gay theater in America.
Bill Kaiser:
Michael Matthews
- New artistic director at Celebration Theatre, Los Angeles
Reviews
Demian:
US
- by Tim Miller
Bill Kaiser:
Play it Cool
- by Larry Dean Harris, Phillip Swann, Mark Winkler
Make Love Not War
- by Michael Kearns
Judy at the Stonewall Inn
- by Tom ONeil
2004 Columbus National Gay & Lesbian Theatre Festival
Singing Rainbows
- Gay Mens Chorus of Los Angeles
Bill Kaiser and Doric Wilson:
Bi-coastal Robert Patrick
by Bill Kaiser and Doric Wilson
Steven LaVigne:
I Could Have Sung All Night: My Story
- Marni Nixon autobiography
Just Outside the Spotlight
- Eileen Heckart biography
The Q Guide to Broadway
by Seth Rudetsky;
The Q Guide to Oscar Parties and Other Award Shows
by Joel Perry
Memoirs
- Tennessee Williams autobiography
J. Cookston Right:
Southern Baptist Sissies
- by Del Shores
Doric Wilson:
A Question of Pride: Gayfest 2004!
- plays by Dan Clancy, Michael D. Jackson, Susan Jeremy, Russell Bouthiller
A Queer Carol
- by Joe Godfrey
Sunday Paper
- by David Zellnik
The Invention of Love
- Tom Stoppard
Resident Alien
- by Tim Fountain
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