Word: crowley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...BOYS IN THE BAND...is not a musical." says the ad for the film version of Mart Crowley's 1967 off Broadway play about homosexuals. That, of course is true right now, but I wouldn't be surprised it a musical Boys did turn up a few years hence. Crowley's work as a play has already done more to legitimize homosexuality as a topic for popular culture than anything else before it. As a movie, it will help open up such remaining bastions of heterosexual chauvinism as pop music and the musical theatre to candid expression by homosexual artists...
...illusion after illusion is stripped away during the party. Crowley manages to destroy virtually all popular conceptions of the homosexual personality and existence. If we cannot entirely identify with the film's world of boundless sorrow and lacerating wit, we cannot turn our backs either. As one character says to Alan. "It's like watching an accident on the highway. You can't look at it and you can't look away...