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PHOTO SPECIAL: Looking Back at 14 Landmark Gay Plays

Mart Crowley's <i>The Boys In The Band</i> (1968) portrayed the pleasures, miseries and private lives of gay men at a birthday party.

PHOTO SPECIAL: Looking Back at 14 Landmark Gay Plays

As part of 半岛体育.com's 30 Days of Pride, we look back at 14 landmark plays dealing with gay themes.
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Mart Crowley's <i>The Boys In The Band</i> (1968) portrayed the pleasures, miseries and private lives of gay men at a birthday party.
Mart Crowley's <i>The Boys In The Band</i> (1968) portrayed the pleasures, miseries and private lives of gay men at a birthday party.
Christopher Innvar, John Wellmann, Kevin Isola, Jon Levenson, Kevyn Morrow, Nick Westrate and Graham Rowat
Harvey Fierstein's <i>Torch Song Trilogy</i>, a semi-autobiographical comedy of Jewish drag queen Arnold and his extended family, debuted uptown in 1981.
<i>Torch Song Trilogy</i> was adapted into a 1988 film starring Fierstein.
George Hearn, Gene Barry and Les Cagelles in <i>La Cage aux Folles</i>
Les Cagelles
<i>The Normal Heart</i>, Larry Kramer's assault on the establishment for disregarding the AIDS crisis, debuted in 1985.
The Normal Heart_Broadway_Production Photos_Cast_HR
The film adaptation of Kramer's play debuted on HBO May 25, 2014.
Michael Rupert and cast in <i>Falsettos</i>, 1992
Paul Rudnick's <i>Jeffrey</i>, a comedy about gays finding love (and lust) again in the age of AIDS, debuted in 1993.
David Marshall Grant, Stephen Spinella and Jeffrey Wright
<i>Angels in America</i> was adapted into an HBO miniseries in 2003, starring Merly Streep, Al Pacino and Emma Thompson.
Zachary Quinto and Christian Borle
Terrence McNally's 1995 Tony-winning comedy <i>Love! Valour! Compassion!</i> followed a group of gay men loving and fighting on a beach-house holiday.
<i>The Laramie Project</i> (2000), by Mois茅s Kaufman and the Tectonic Theater Project, dealt with the reaction to the 1998 murder of gay student Matthew Shepard. The play draws on hundreds of interviews with inhabitants of Laramie, Wyoming.
Richard Greenberg's <i>Take Me Out</i>, surrounding a major league baseball player who comes out at the peak of his career, opened on Broadway in 2003.
Patrick Breen, Cotter Smith and Patrick Heusinger
Tony Award winner Nathan Lane starred in&nbsp;<i>The Nance</i>, Douglas Carter Beane&#39;s 1930s-set play about a gay burlesque performer facing a changing world. The show enjoyed a 2013 Broadway run.
Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron's <i>Fun Home</i>, based on the work of lesbian cartoonist Alison Bechdel, opened at the Public Theater in 2013.
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