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Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp, born Dennis Charles Pratt (1908–1999), English writer, actor, and artist's model; author of The Naked Civil Servant, subject of the 1975 John Hurt film, star of An Evening with Quentin Crisp in New York from 1978, and a flamboyant queer icon.
The Boys in the Band (play)
The Boys in the Band is Mart Crowley's 1968 Off-Broadway play about gay men at a birthday party, the first mainstream play centered on gay men; adapted into a 1970 Friedkin film and a 2020 Netflix film.
The Laramie Project
The Laramie Project: 2000 documentary play by Moisés Kaufman and Tectonic Theater Project on Laramie, Wyoming's reaction to Matthew Shepard's 1998 murder, built from over 200 resident interviews, premiered at the Denver Center and adapted for HBO.
The Normal Heart
The Normal Heart is Larry Kramer's 1985 autobiographical play about AIDS activist Ned Weeks and the founding of Gay Men's Health Crisis in early-1980s New York; premiered at the Public Theater, it won the 2011 Tony for Best Revival and was filmed for HBO in 2014.