Queer Theatre and the Legacy of Cal Yeomans [Hardcover]

A?forgotten yet award-winning playwright,?Cal Yeomans was one of the founders of gay theater whose work was fueled by gay liberation and extinguished by the AIDS epidemic. Schanke's examination of his life and legacy allows a rare exploration into this pivotal moment of gay American history.Preface: Cooked Down to Nothing Horrible Misfit What a Wondrous Onslaught Got the Dream, Yeah, But Not the Guts Crazy as a F**ing Loon I Am a?Name Pornography? Why Not? Get Rid of That Gay Stuff I Do Not Deathf*** *?Living With a Death Sentence The Rap of Ignorance

Queer Theatre and the Legacy of Cal Yeomans is a well-researched biography that explores the life and times of the often forgotten award-winning playwright. This book is not only a biography of a playwright but a history of theatre and GLBT as a whole during the significant period between the Stonewall riots and the AIDS epidemic. A documentary history, yet also a biography, this work draws the reader in and would be a valuable addition to any GLBT or theatre collection. - GLBTRT Newsletter

An absorbing gay history - psychological, social, sexual, and cultural - expertly informed by Schanke's knowledge of the theatre . . . [He] has used Cal's plays, journals, and letters, plus the interviews he conducted with Cal's friends, and put them together in unobtrusive, readable prose - and got it right. This book is not just about gay theatre and gay liberation, but also about gay childhood in the small-town South and gay adulthood in cities at a time when liberation turned to horror. It's an amazing story. - Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide

Schanke takes evident delight in recovering the life and work of Cal Yeomans, a now-nearly forgotten pioneer in the gay theatre movement of the Post-Stonewall era . . . Through meticulous research and patient reconstruction of Yeoman's life and work, Schanke has written an academic 'page turner' that restores this early maverick of Post-Stonlãn