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So, 1968, this play opened off-Broadway called The Boys in the Band, and it was a huge

sensation, and it was this play about a group of gay friends getting together for a birthday

party at an apartment in Manhattan and just laying into each other, tearing each other

two pieces. And a lot of people at the time, even some people today thought it was really

homophobic. But actually, you know, the message of the play, what it ends with is these gay guys

tearing each other apart and this dark night of the soul and just they light into each other.

And one of the characters, the main

character, the lead character at the end of the play, says, if we could just learn not to hate

ourselves quite so much, right? The play was really a fun, campy romp through the twisted

psyches of people who had been warped by the homophobia and hatred that they had to endure.

And the lack of information and their inability to conceive of themselves as anything but damaged because they were gay.

And I love the play.

I'm one of those people who saw the play, it saw the movie version of it that came out in 1970 when I was a teenager.

And my takeaway wasn't, oh, gay people are awful.

My takeaway was, these guys have friends. My takeaway was, these guys have friends.

My takeaway was, look at them dance. My takeaway was, oh, yeah, I will move to the city and I will have friends. I'll just make some better friends. And not everybody in the show was awful.

There were actually a couple of characters who were more together and they stood out in the

pile of shit that was on the stage or on the on the

screen and you know my takeaway was positive so anyway the actors most of them in this play and then

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