Word: parkes
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...Crystal boy" is Taiwanese slang for a gay male hustler, and it is in this community that the play is set. New Park, a place of tranquillity within the bustle of Taipei, has become a haven for young gay men who have no other place to go. Earning their living by hustling, leeching off of sugar daddies and working a series of short-lived day jobs, our three main characters form a sort of family under the crass leadership of their pimp, "Chief" Yang Jinhai (Andrew Li '77). The young men offer a study in contrasts: Mild-mannered...
...then Wang Kuilong (Ch'ien-hung Chan) reappears in New Park. A wealthy and exotic figure, he is somehow connected to the park legend about the long-dead hustler Phoenix Boy, and his Dragon Prince, the lover who destroyed him in a fit of mad passion long ago. The play's main themes have by this time been clearly laid out: Sex and love, home and banishment and living with--or escaping from--one's past. The second act enlarges on those themes, bringing the players into a new setting--the Cozy Nest, a gay bar opened by Chief Yang...
...remarkably beautiful, and the dialogues contain much prose of great lyricism and power. The directors have given greater depth to this effect by generating a changing "scenery": slide projectors are used to create a background featuring anything from photographs of tranquil natural scenes, suggesting the peace of New Park, to black-and-white photographs of young men long gone, to illustrate the memory one character is narrating to another...
Today it is a Boston African American National Historic Site frequented by about three school groups a day, according to Park Ranger, tour guide and Suffolk College Law School student Aaron D. Snipe, who took a break this week to discuss the church's rich history...
...Meeting House began as an alternative to white churches, which barred blacks from sitting in the front pews and taking part in church voting, according to the Black Heritage Trail Guide, a written tour of Boston's African-American landmarks published by the National Park Service...