I can be in the military in Afghanistan and get married in New York! Two things I never wanted for myself! And are those really two separate things anyway? Naturally, I’m delighted that those opportunities are available to my peers, since achieving rights for all is the biggest “duh” since free popcorn at premieres. But do I have to claim them–and more importantly, is something in the LGBT culture lost as so much important stuff is gained on the way to the beautifully appointed table?
I posed that question to three major playwrights represented in Standing On Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays, a staged reading of shorts at the Minetta Lane Theatre, which last week was simultaneously performed all over the country in order to make a powerful statement about equality. And they agreed!
“I do worry about that,” Doug Wright (Pulitzer winner for I Am My Own Wife) admitted to me. “We serve such a valuable function as critics of the culture and satirists, engaging in the kind of truth-telling that is a particular function only marginal people earn in an honest way, and I do worry that we’ve lost some of our innate subversiveness.
Full Story from the Village Voice
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