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Welcome to Dunn and Done.

I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey, All Things Dominic Dunn,

where it eventually all connects. Thank you for joining me today as we dive into a story still

untold within our cinematic universe of Dominic Dunn. Today we are hopping all the way back to December 1969 with a little

bit of trashy tabloids about all the homosexuals. Why this today, Alicia? Well, we are going to be

talking about Mark Crowley, the playwright of the boys in the band, the play that changes just about everything in the moment

regarding gay visibility. The Boys in the Band was controversial, mostly because gays had not

really been portrayed in a realistic way without suffering or dying at the end of the story for their sexual preference.

Mark Crowley will pin this play and that is a whole different story. His life, his work,

his friendships, and how our man Nick came to produce the boys in the band as a movie after the success of the play.

Honestly, Dominic Dunn gave Mark Crowley a whole lot of encouragement to write the play in the

first place, but all of those stories are coming in the future.

Today, I wanted to set the stage a little bit and journey us back to 1969 for a, you know, general view on the gaze.

I wanted to convey the thinking at the time.

What was the norm?

What was the hot take going on 60 years ago?

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