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🗓️ 19 September 2023
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0:00.0 | You're listening to the microversion of the Savage Love cast at Savage.loaf. |
0:23.2 | On May 31st, in 2018, a new production of Matt Crowley's 1968 hit play The Boys in the Band, |
0:29.9 | opened at the booth theater on Broadway. The Broadway revival of Boys in the Band ran until August |
0:35.6 | 11th, eight shows a week, every week for 10 or 12 weeks. If you don't know the show, it's a famous |
0:42.0 | and really important piece of theater about a group of gay friends living in Manhattan before |
0:46.2 | Stonewall. It was in 1968, this incredibly searing and realistic portrait of gay life. |
0:53.6 | When the revival opened in 2018, it showed us how far we've come, and it showed us what those |
0:59.5 | who seek to push gay people back into the closet want to return us to. Lives warped and destroyed |
1:06.0 | by shame. I saw the production. It was amazing, and all starcast, all openly gay actors playing |
1:12.6 | The Boys in the Band, Zachary Quinto, Jim Parsons, Andrew Randalls, directed by a gay man, |
1:18.0 | Joe Mantello, and it was amazing. And you don't have to take my word for it. One the 2018 Tony |
1:24.4 | Award for Best Revival of a Play. Anyway, I have a point to make, a relevant point to something |
1:30.4 | in the news right now, but a little bit more about the show first. Very early in the show, |
1:35.5 | one of The Boys in the Band, Donald stripped naked and took a shower. Live on stage, |
1:41.6 | and Donald was portrayed by Golden Globe-winning film and television star Matt Bomber, |
1:47.7 | who is one of the hottest men, not just in Hollywood, but on the planet. It's not for nothing |
1:54.1 | that Channing Tatum cast Bomber in Magic Mike. And Bomber is not just the most amazing cheekbones |
1:59.8 | you've ever seen, hovering a few feet above the most amazing ass you've ever seen. Bomber is a |
2:04.5 | really good actor. Anyway, I promise I have a point, and my point is hundreds of gay men |
2:11.1 | packed into the booth theater of the summer of 2018 to watch The Boys in the Band, of course, |
2:16.0 | but also all those gay men got to watch. Matt fucking Bomber take off all his clothes and take |
2:23.2 | a shower right in front of them. Terry and I were two of the gay men who sat in the booth theater |
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