Queer Quills

What’s Next for the Great Gay Play? Everything.

What’s Next for the Great Gay Play? Everything. In recent shows, ideas of gayness are expanding, combining and disappearing all at once.

Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2019 The American Library Association tracked 377 challenges to library, school, and university materials and services in 2019. Of the 566 books that were challen...

Terrence McNally, author of Master Class, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune and Love! Valour! Compassion! to name a few, has died from complications due to Coronavirus.

Playwright Terrence McNally Dies Of Complications Due To Coronavirus Acclaimed playwright Terrence McNally has died of complications due to coronavirus. McNally, the author of Master Class, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune and Love! Valour! Compassion!, among…

Playwright Mart Crowley, Best Known For THE BOYS IN THE BAND, Has Died at 84 BroadwayWorld is saddened to report that playwright Mart Crowley, best known for writing the play The Boys in the Band, has passed away. He was 84.

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How the N**i Regime's Pink Triangle Symbol Was Repurposed for LGBTQ Pride The symbol was born from a dark time in history

Tony-Winning Torch Song Trilogy Producer John Glines Dies at 84 | Playbill Mr. Glines was the first person to thank a same-sex partner in an acceptance speech at a major awards show.

Q***r Quills book club connects community through good reads The LGBTQ+ Center in Orlando is holding the Q***r Quills Summer Reading Club featuring selections by Patrick Nathan, Nicole Dennis-Benn and Lei Ming.

Q***r Quills: Summer Reading Club is having its first meeting tonight, yet we're nominated for Orlando Weekly's Best of Orlando! Thanks to everyone who nominated us. Good stuff ahead!

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What an interesting look back!

FROM THE ARCHIVES: When As Is and The Normal Heart Both Tackled AIDS | Playbill In an April 1985 feature, Playbill spoke to the playwright of groundbreaking As Is, and reported from a rehearsal of the Off-Broadway premiere of The Normal Heart.

A Brief History of Gay Theater, in Three Acts On the return of ‘The Boys in the Band’ and why it matters more than ever.

Brilliant thoughts on theatre's role in shaping our world and how we can help. With regard to QQ, the talk touches on the development of Normal Heart and Angels in America.

Why theater is essential to democracy Truth comes from the collision of different ideas, and theater plays an essential role in showing us that truth, says legendary artistic director Oskar Eustis. In this powerful talk, Eustis outlines his plan to reach (and listen to) people in places across the US where the theater, like many other i...

https://broadway.news/2018/05/31/review-the-boys-in-the-band-still-resonates-beneath-the-laughs/

Review: ‘The Boys in the Band’ still resonates beneath the laughs | Broadway News “Thanks for the laughs,” says Harold, whose disorderly birthday celebration is the occasion on which the men in “The Boys in the Band” gather for an evening of cutting barbs, bottomless cocktails and occasional soul-searching. Sarcasm drips from every syllable of that farewell, which is deli...