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• Thought Pieces
  
  Bob Baker:
  • Turning Oral Histories into Performance - How-to make a show written by gay and lesbian seniors
  
  Sharon Bandy and Joan Lipkin:
  • Beyond Stonewall: Why We March - A 25 minute play for free use.
  
  Demian:
  • Censorship of Gay Plays: An All-American Tradition - The silencing of breakthrough gay and lesbian plays
  • Doric Wilson - February 24, 1939–May 7, 2011 - An obituary.
  
  Carolyn Gage:
  • Ugly Ducklings: How I Came to Write a Play Where the Lesbian Doesn’t Kill Herself - deconstructing hetero-patriarchy
           • List of Carolyn Gage’s plays with gay content.
  
  Sky Gilbert:
  • An Icon of Flamboyance - John Herbert elegy
  
  Erik Haagensen:
  • America’s 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
           • List of Robert Patrick’s plays with gay content.
  
  Gerard Raymond:
  • It’s Queer, It’s Here, It’s for Everyone - LGBT theater for wider audiences
  
  Doug Spearman:
  • For Joseph - Keeping LGBT kids alive.
  
  Jason Stuart:
  • I was that Kid - Do not suicide, it will get better.
  
  Francine L. Trevens:
  • Old Plays are Gold - Revealing the wealth of history
  
  Steven LaVigne:
  • Rodgers & Hammerstein on the Purple Circuit: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Revision? - Should a cassic be altered?
  
  Patricia Nell Warren:
  • Doric Wilson, Theater Great (1939-2011) - A Remembrance.
  
  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
           • List of Doric Wilson’s plays with gay content.
  
  

• Interviews
  John W. Gettys:
  • The Gay Theater of Daniel Curzon - Interview and biography
           • List of Daniel Curzon’s plays with gay content.
  
  Michael Dale:
  • Robert Patrick’s 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:
  • The Women of Brewster Place: The Musical by Tim Acito
  • Haram Iran by Jay Paul Deratany, and Salam Shaolm by Saleem
  • Women Behind Bars by Tom Eyen
  • 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 O’Neil
  • 2004 Columbus National Gay & Lesbian Theatre Festival
  • Singing Rainbows - Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles
  
  Bill Kaiser and Doric Wilson:
  • Bi-coastal Robert Patrick by Bill Kaiser and Doric Wilson
  
  Steven LaVigne:
  • Hollywood Babylon, It’s Back by Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince
  • Memoirs - Tennessee Williams autobiography
  • The Q Guide to Broadway by Seth Rudetsky - and - The Q Guide to Oscar Parties and Other Award Shows by Joel Perry
  • Just Outside the Spotlight - Eileen Heckart biography
  • I Could Have Sung All Night: My Story - Marni Nixon 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