LGBTQ+ theater

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Split Britches

Fifty Years On

Edited by Benjamin Gillespie
By Peggy Shaw & Lois Weaver
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer/Trans Theater/Dance/Performance

A critical anthology of performance texts, interviews, and essays on the later work of Split Britches

Queer and Trans Aesthetics

By Lloyd Whitesell
Subjects: Sexuality Studies, Art, Music

A study devoted to queer meaning in cultural expression

A Queer History of Flamenco

Diversions, Transitions, and Returns in Flamenco Dance (1808–2018)

Translated by Ryan Rockmore

By Fernando López Rodríguez
Translated by Ryan Rockmore
Subjects: Dance, Gender Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies, Sexuality Studies, Theater and Performance

Revealing the LGBTQ+ lives of Flamenco artists

Greasepaint Puritan

Boston to 42nd Street in the Queer Backstage Novels of Bradford Ropes

By Maya Cantu
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Gender Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies, Media Studies, Cinema Studies

Recovers the life and art of Bradford Ropes, author of 42nd Street and chronicler of gay lives in early show business

Charles Ludlam Lives!

Charles Busch, Bradford Louryk, Taylor Mac, and the Queer Legacy of the Ridiculous Theatrical Company

By Sean Edgecomb
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Sexuality Studies, American Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer/Trans Theater/Dance/Performance

Explores the enduring queer legacy of playwright, actor, and director Charles Ludlam

 

Murder Most Queer

The Homicidal Homosexual in the American Theater

By Jordan Schildcrout
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Sexuality Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer/Trans Theater/Dance/Performance

A fascinating look at the shifting meanings of murderous gay characters in American theater over a century

Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies

Performance, Race, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance

By James F. Wilson
Subjects: Theater and Performance, African American Studies, Sexuality Studies, American Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer/Trans Theater/Dance/Performance

The gay and lesbian presence in black entertainment in Harlem nightclubs, speakeasies, rent parties, and Broadway stages

Lady Dicks and Lesbian Brothers

Staging the Unimaginable at the WOW Café Theatre

By Catherine Davy
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Sexuality Studies, American Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer/Trans Theater/Dance/Performance

Parody, cross-dressing, zany comedy, and unbridled eroticism at a women's theater space in the East Village

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