The Boys in the Band | Critical Overview
The Boys in the Band was certainly not the first popular drama to have gay characters. For the most part, however, homosexuality was disguised in plays and film. One of the most powerful examples of this, which critics often point to as an immediate predecessor of Crowley’s play, is Robert Anderson’s 1953 drama Tea and Sympathy, about an effeminate boy who is mocked and threatened at a preparatory school. (He is given the nickname ‘‘Sister- Boy,’’ and the headmaster’s wife makes it her mission to ‘‘cure’’ him sexually.) What makes The Boys in the...
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