| LC control no. | gf2014026319 |
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| Thesaurus/term list | lcgft |
| Genre/Form term | Erotic drama |
| Variant(s) | Gay erotic drama |
| See also | Drama Bawdy plays |
| Found in | LCSH, Oct. 21, 2014 (Erotic drama. BT Drama) Erotic shorts : an evening of short erotic plays, via Brown Paper Tickets website, Apr. 9, 2013. |
| Invalid LCCN | gf2014026351 |
| LC control no. | gf2018026007 |
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| Thesaurus/term list | lcgft |
| Genre/Form term | Gay drama |
| Variant(s) | Gay erotic drama Homosexual drama |
| See also | Drama |
| Scope note | Drama featuring gay characters or addressing gay themes. |
| Found in | Work cat.: Gay plays : an international anthology, 1989. 2006497082: Perfectly abnormal : seven gay plays, 2006. 85151443: Gay plays, 1984-1994. 78070671: Gay plays : the first collection, ©1979. 2013002759: Gay drama now : an anthology, 2013. 2016008180: Clum, J.M. Terrence McNally and fifty years of American gay drama, 2016. 97013548: O'Connor, S. Straight acting : popular gay drama from Wilde to Rattigan, 1998. A companion to twentieth-century American drama, 2005: p. 486 (Lesbian and gay drama / Jill Dolan. "Some believe this genre derives its power and definition from identity, infusing its content with preoccupations, styles, and concerns 'true' and 'authentic' to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and/or queer communities. Other theorists and artists believe 'lesbian and gay drama' is already an archaic category, no longer necessary because such work has gradually assimilated into mainstream theatre and performance.") p. 487 ("Mae West's play The Drag (1927), one of the earliest expressions of openly homosexual content on a public stage, described two gay men, one married, involved in a love triangle that ends in murder and stages, in the process, a drag ball") p. 490 (gay plays) Reader's guide to lesbian and gay studies, 2000: p. 603 (homosexual drama in the 20th century) Tony Kushner : new essays on the art and politics of the plays, 2006: p. 16 ("Homosexual plays became either scathing indictments of American society's failure to adequately respond to the AIDS crisis, as in the plays of Larry Kramer, or dark depictions of the oppressions of gays, as in Martin Sherman's Bent (1978)") |
| Invalid LCCN | gf2014026351 |