Queer Quills

01/18/2023

What’s Next for the Great Gay Play? Everything.

In recent shows, ideas of gayness are expanding, combining and disappearing all at once.

04/20/2020

The American Library Association tracked 377 challenges to library, school, and university materials and services in 2019. Of the 566 books that were challen...

03/24/2020

Terrence McNally, author of Master Class, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune and Love! Valour! Compassion! to name a few, has died from complications due to Coronavirus.

Acclaimed playwright Terrence McNally has died of complications due to coronavirus. McNally, the author of Master Class, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune and Love! Valour! Compassion!, among…

03/08/2020

BroadwayWorld is saddened to report that playwright Mart Crowley, best known for writing the play The Boys in the Band, has passed away. He was 84.

09/13/2019

https://time.com/5295476/gay-pride-pink-triangle-history/

The symbol was born from a dark time in history

08/12/2018

Mr. Glines was the first person to thank a same-sex partner in an acceptance speech at a major awards show.

07/03/2018

The LGBTQ+ Center in Orlando is holding the Q***r Quills Summer Reading Club featuring selections by Patrick Nathan, Nicole Dennis-Benn and Lei Ming.

06/28/2018

Q***r Quills: Summer Reading Club is having its first meeting tonight, yet we're nominated for Orlando Weekly's Best of Orlando! Thanks to everyone who nominated us. Good stuff ahead!

Tell us about your favorites in our city.

06/21/2018

What an interesting look back!

In an April 1985 feature, Playbill spoke to the playwright of groundbreaking As Is, and reported from a rehearsal of the Off-Broadway premiere of The Normal Heart.

06/10/2018

On the return of ‘The Boys in the Band’ and why it matters more than ever.

06/07/2018

Brilliant thoughts on theatre's role in shaping our world and how we can help. With regard to QQ, the talk touches on the development of Normal Heart and Angels in America.

Truth comes from the collision of different ideas, and theater plays an essential role in showing us that truth, says legendary artistic director Oskar Eustis. In this powerful talk, Eustis outlines his plan to reach (and listen to) people in places across the US where the theater, like many other i...

06/02/2018

https://broadway.news/2018/05/31/review-the-boys-in-the-band-still-resonates-beneath-the-laughs/

“Thanks for the laughs,” says Harold, whose disorderly birthday celebration is the occasion on which the men in “The Boys in the Band” gather for an evening of cutting barbs, bottomless cocktails and occasional soul-searching. Sarcasm drips from every syllable of that farewell, which is deli...