Art, Sex, and Theatre
Lecture
When: Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2007, 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Where: McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020, UCSB, Santa Barbara
Cost: Not available
Age limit: Not available
Categories: Lectures
Description: Felice Picano, one of the most important writers in United States, will share with us his personal history of how gay theatre developed in New York after Stonewall, based on his recent book, Art and Sex in Greenwich Village. Almost a decade after the Stonewall rebellion lit the political fuse of Gay Liberation in 1969, its impact on the arts remained minimal. While a handful of gay plays, films and a small number of gay themed books were available, few of these reflected the new, out-of-the-closet realities of the post-Stonewall scene. That landscape began to change in 1977, when Felice Picano launched a small press devoted to gay books, SeaHorse, and author Larry Mitchell set up his own gay press, Calamus Books. Dramaturge Terry Helbing followed with a line of plays at his JH Press. By 1981 the three men joined forces to create Gay Presses of New York (GPNy), the most visible and influential publisher of gay books of its time.
Phone: 805-893-3137
Event posted Nov. 12, 2007
Last updated Nov. 12, 2007
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