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Today, he is often considered to have started the "boom" of Latin American authors of the 1960s. The "boom" writers, he said, are inspired to "give voice to a silent past" because of years of colonial repression...
Chauncey said the main reason that gays did not publicly announce their sexuality prior to the late 1960s was because of fear of harassment or brutality...
...said a generational conflict within the gay community in the late 1960s resulted in a shift from a private "coming out" to a group of gay friends to a more public "coming out" to gay and straight society...
...Prior to the late 1960s] gays embraced the cultural distinction between public and private spheres, and deliberately cultivated ambiguity," Chauncey said...
Admittedly, the plot line of The Beauty Queen of Leenane is not breathtakingly original. Set in the 1960s in the obscure village of Leenane in the county Connemara, it tells the story of a prototypical dysfunctional family. Maureen Folan is a forty-year-old woman stuck in a dismal job and still living with her mother in a tiny countryside shanty. Mag Folan is a crotchety 70 year old with a urinary infection and a nasty habit of emptying her bedpan in the dish sink. Maureen is offered a route of escape when Pato Dooley, a man of roughly...