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PERRY BRASS
(1947 - )Nationality: USA
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Perry Brass, born 15 Sep 1947, from Savannah, GA, now living in New York City, award-winning writer and gender-rights pioneer Perry Brass has published 18 books, including poetry, novels, plays, short fiction, science fiction, and advice books ("How to Survive Your Own Gay Life," "The Manly Art of Seduction"), and sold more than 150,000 copies of his books in all media. Active in the movement toward lgbt rights (gay equality) since 1969, he co-edited Come Out!, the world's first gay liberation newspaper published by New York's Gay Liberation Front. In 1972, he co-founded the Gay Men's Health Project Clinic, New York's first clinic for gay men, important in the city's early fight against hepatitis and AIDS, still operating as the Callen-Lorde Community Health Center. Brass's work continuously deals with issues of sexual freedom, spirituality and personal politics coming out of his involvement with the late 1960s (the Stonewall Riots) into the present (sexual, reproductive rights, and gender freedom). He has written about and anticipated in his work much of the progressive social change we see today throughout the world-around gay marriage, economic justice, gender equality, reproductive freedom, transsexual rights, etc. Aside from his books, poetry, and essays, he also regularly blogs for the Huffington Post and the Good Men Project. He can reached through his website: www.perrybrass.com
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After the Cafe Antoine All Men Another Temporary Assignment Bar None Chrome Morning Disco Night ChillsAfter the Cafe Antoine
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Originally performed with two other one acts under the overall title: "Here, There and Yonder"
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Meridian Gay Theatre, New York 1984
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Top of PageAll Men
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American Renaissance Theatre, New York 1987
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Top of PageAnother Temporary Assignment
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Originally performed with two other one acts under the overall title: "Here, There and Yonder"
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Meridian Gay Theatre, New York 1984
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Top of PageBar None
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John Lenning, a conservative, closeted gay man is going into his favorite bar downtown in New York's Greenwich Village to meet an old "friend," Tod, who is anything but closeted and conservative. Tod infuriates John by "swishing" in the bar, alerting the bar tender Pete O' Neal that a "fag" is in his establishment-he orders both Lenning and Tod out. But Tod has come on a mission: to recruit Lenning to be a part of a very particular kind of "sit in," a "sip in," to establish that "known" homosexuals have actually been drinking in the bar. Lenning, a World War Two veteran, must make a stunning decision: to leave in humiliation, or stay with other activists and fight for his rights to exist openly, and declare himself in a time when this kind of declaration could mean exposure to public shame, loss of a job, family, friends, and a place in society. He makes that decision, and it changes his life. The "T 'n' T Classics" publication of this play (March, 2010) also includes Program Notes and a "Pre-Stonewall Lexicon of Words and Phrases."
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The entire setting of "Bar None" is a bar in the mid-1960s, in Greenwich Village in New York City. "Bar None" is based upon a real event: the "Sip-In" organized in April of 1966, roughly three years before the Stonewall Rebellion that changed the course of the gay movement, by members of the New York Mattachine Society to protest an actual law written by the New York State Alcoholic Beverage Commission (the "ABC") that prohibited any bar owner serving drinks to "known" homosexuals. This law, which had been enforced since the 1920s, made owning a gay bar an illegal operation. It meant that gay men and lesbians could not congregate in an open fashion to drink together. The Sip-In was successful. It became one of the New York Mattachine Society's proudest accomplishments. However, even removing the law did not stop entrapment in bars, restrooms, and occasionally in private homes, since the laws against sodomy and solicitation were still on the books.
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Sidetrack, 3394 North Halstead, Chicago, Il. 1999
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LionHeart Gay Theatre, Chicago, IL
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T 'n' T Classic Books, "Short Plays Long to Remember," edited by Francine L. Trevens (Mar 2010 978-1-886586-14-7
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Gay, one act drama
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Top of PageChrome Morning
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Originally performed with two other one acts under the overall title: "Here, There and Yonder"
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Meridian Gay Theatre, New York 1984
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Top of PageDisco
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Meridian Gay Theatre, New York 1984
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Gay full length
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Top of PageNight Chills
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AIDS full length
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