{"id":960,"date":"1992-12-07T22:35:15","date_gmt":"1992-12-08T04:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/?p=960"},"modified":"2012-07-07T22:44:55","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T03:44:55","slug":"acting-gay-male-homosexuality-in-modern-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/acting-gay-male-homosexuality-in-modern-drama\/","title":{"rendered":"Acting Gay: Male Homosexuality in Modern Drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The GLBTRT has been reviewing books and movies in its newsletter since the early 1990s. Trace the evolution of queer publishing through these historic reviews. This review was originally\u00a0published in\u00a0<a title=\"Read this issue online. \" href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/glbtrt\/sites\/ala.org.glbtrt\/files\/content\/newsletter\/newsletters\/1992Winter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Vol. 4, No. 4, Winter 1992<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/acting.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-961\" style=\"border: 0pt none; float: left; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px;\" title=\"acting\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/acting-200x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Cover of Acting Gay\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/acting-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/acting.jpeg 318w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Find this book in a library near you!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/25130662\" target=\"_blank\">Acting Gay: Male Homosexuality in Modern Drama. By John M. Gum. Columbia University Press, 1992. Between Men-Between Women Series. Cloth. $29.95 (ISBN 0-231-07510-3)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>English and American playwrights and their works are examined in three major sections. The first part, &#8220;Bodies and Taboos,&#8221; focuses on the physical aspects of homosexuality; it also examines plays about AIDS and their idiosyncracies.<\/p>\n<p>A second section, &#8220;Codes and Closets,&#8221; examines drama written between 1930 and 1968 as a vehicle for opening up a space for gay male characters while maintaining a foot in the closet.<\/p>\n<p>The final section, &#8220;Staging a Culture That Isn&#8217;t Just Sexual,&#8221; discusses drama over the past three decades in light of the Oscar Wilde trials, the Nazi persecution of homosexuals, and the Stonewall riots.<\/p>\n<p>Complete with notes, an annotated listing of gay plays and an index, this makes a solid contribution to overall history of gay characters in drama.<\/p>\n<p>Reviewed by <strong>Ed Santa Vicca<\/strong><br \/>\nHayden Library<br \/>\nArizona State University<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GLBTRT has been reviewing books and movies in its newsletter since the early 1990s. Trace the evolution of queer publishing through these historic reviews. This review was originally\u00a0published in\u00a0Vol. 4, No. 4, Winter 1992. Acting Gay: Male Homosexuality in Modern Drama. By John M. Gum. Columbia University Press, 1992. Between Men-Between Women Series. Cloth. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1164,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,46,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}