Gay classic

  • 1980’s classic queer drama JERKER is revived

    1980’s classic queer drama JERKER is revived

      Jerker, or The Helping Hand: A Pornographic Elegy with Redeeming Social Value and a Hymn to the Queer Men of San Francisco in Twenty Telephone Calls, Many of Them Dirty (commonly known simply as Jerker) is a 1986 one-act play by Robert Chesley. Chesley wrote the play because he believed it was “important to remove the stigma…

  • Should THE BOYS IN THE BAND be playing a different tune now?

    Should THE BOYS IN THE BAND be playing a different tune now?

      The much heralded movie adaption of the 2018 Broadway revival of Mart Crowley’s gay classic drama THE BOYS IN THE BAND has finally. arrived  Helmed by the uber queer Producer Ryan Murphy who has a passion for period dramas, the movie has that highly polished look that we now expect from him on all…