Congrats on Deerfield High School on ''Making Gay History: Before Stonewall''!
Meantime, HBO Max is currently showing ''Equal,'' a four-part docuseries about the landmark events and forgotten heroes of LGBTQ rights, many pre-Stonewall. It's produced by Greg Berlanti and Jim Parsons, and it's narrated by Tony winner Billy Porter (''Kinky Boots''). Among its cast are theater pros, like Cheyenne Jackson (''All Shook Up''). He plays Dale Jennings, a playwright and author who helped found the Mattachine Society, one of the earliest gay-rights groups in the U.S., in the 1950s. Anthony Rapp (''Rent'') portrays Harry Hays, who wrote ''The Call,'' a manifesto for gay rights in 1948. And Samira Wiley (from Off-Broadway's ''Daphne's Dive'') plays the legendary playwright Lorraine Hansberry (''A Raisin in the Sun''). |
