| “The Island of Lost Chorus Boys” |
| Last Edit: kieran 11:49 am EDT 06/15/22 |
| Posted by: kieran 11:48 am EDT 06/15/22 |
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“The theatre industry has long been a haven for gay men and other individuals who didn’t quite “fit in” in a mainstream context. But while our stories and our experiences have often felt invisible, gay men don’t gravitate toward musical theatre because we feel physically unseen. No. We flock—we float, we fly—to the cattle calls of New York because, in many ways, we felt too seen in our various hometowns. Many of us were relentlessly bullied for our voices, shifting hips, and broad expressiveness.
“So what does it mean when we are told our marketability depends on our capacity to pass as the men whose rigid and volatile natures we fled? And what happens when the other gay men to whom we turn as mentors reproduce the terrorizing masculinity wielded by those boys back home?” |
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