39 plays that brought the LGBTQIA+ experience to the stage

Photo marks39 plays that brought the LGBTQIA+ experience to the stageFour Playbill Pride with a look at some of the plays that strengthen LGBTQia+ stories on stage.

Marcel Spears and Calvin Leon Smith in Fat ham John Marcus

The theater has long been a home for the queer community, both of which offer a space for queer artists to share their work, as well as a place to strengthen queer stories. In celebration of Playbill Pride, look at some of the plays that LGBTQia+ stories brought to stage.

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39 plays that brought the LGBTQIA+ experience to the stage

39 plays that brought the LGBTQIA+ experience to the stage

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Joe Mantel and Stephen Spinella in Angels in America

James McARDLE and Andrew Garfield in Angels in America on Broadway

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Steven Gregan and Jonathan Hogan in As is

Richard Gere and David Dukes in Bent

James Hamilton

Jesse Pennington and Phillip James Brannon in Bootycandy

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Jim Parsons and Matt Bomer in The boys in the band

Colman Domingo in A boy and his soul

Ann Trevor and Helen Menken in The prisoner

John Cameron Mitchell and Jonathan Hadary in The fate of me

Gabriel Ebert and Harvey Fierstein in Gently off the stream

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Katrina Lenk and Adina are sondered in Improper

Carol rosegg

James Cusati-Moyer and Ato Blankson-Wood in Slave

Matthew Murphy

Cameron Scoggins and Tom Phelan in Hands

Patrick Breen and Patrick Heusterer in Next fall

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Jamyl Dobson, Leland Fowler, and Edward Maere in one out of two

Monique Carboni

DW Moffatt and Brad Davis in The normal heart

Nicholas L. Ashe, Jonathan Burke, J. Quinton Johnson, Jeremy Pope, Caleb Eberhardt, John Clay III, and Gerald Caesar in Choir boy

John Benjamin Hickey, Kyle Soller, Arturo Luís Soria, Darryl Gene Daughtry Jr., Dylan Frederick, and Kyle Harris in The heritage

Matthew Murphy

John Wesley Shipp and Harvey Fierstein in Safe sex

Estelle Getty and Harvey Fierstein in Torch Song Trilogy

Michael Rosen and Michael Urie in Torch song

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Erik King and Nathan Lee Graham in Wig out!

Carol rosegg

Michael Urie in Brass and basement

Anne Revere and Katherine Emery in The children’s hour

Andréa Burns, Jonny Orsini, and Cady Huffman in The nance

Sandra Oh and Jessica Hecht in Stop kissing.

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Geoffrey Streatfield and Lewis Reeves in My night with right

Jefferson Mays in I am my own wife

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Michael Countryman, Lisa Emery, Corey Hawkins, John Benjamin Hickey, and Allison Janney in Six degrees of separation

John Behlmann and Gideon Glick in Significant other

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Michael Urie and Devere Rogers in Chicken and biscuits

Jesse Tyler Ferguson and company of Take me out

Jeremy Daniel

Marcel Spears and Calvin Leon Smith in Fat ham

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Jordan E. Cooper in Is no mo ‘

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