#boys in the band

[trentreznorgf]

“Are you calling me a screaming queen or a tired fairy?”

“Oh, I beg your pardon. There’ll be six, tired, screaming fairy queens and one anxious queer.”

THE BOYS IN THE BAND (2020) dir. Joe Mantello

[alebanana]

this picture is so funny actually

just look at him in the mirror omigod 😭😭😭

[shamelessly-obsessed]

✨Them✨

[ginnyweatherby]

I don't know what's cuter, Andrew's floofy hair, or Jim's sweater paw

[drawingwithlight]

Robert La Tourneaux who played Cowboy in The Boys in the Band (1969)

photographed by Jack Mitchell

[broadways-boysintheband]

BTS pics of The Boys In The Band cast 🤗

(Cutesy of Jim Parsons. Picture credit Brian Hutchison)

[theressomethingscrewy]

The plot for the boys in the band sequel is the most WILD thing I’ve seen in a while

[queer-media-tourney]

[numnum-num]

Scene from "Boys in the Band" (1970), directed by William Friedkin from a screenplay by Mart Crowley

[queerasfact]

In 1968 the play The Boys in the Band was one of the first prominent pieces of American media to not just feature, but centre the stories of queer men.

It was initially difficult for write Mart Crowley to find a cast for the play, with Laurence Luckinbill (who would play Hank) warned that taking the role would end his career. But the production was such a success that it was adapted into a film in 1970. Now post-Stonewall, however, the lack of political angle to the film fell flat, and it wasn't a bit success.

The play was revived eventually for a Broadway production in 2018, with a cast of openly gay actors including Star Trek’s Zachary Quinto and Big Bang Theory’s Jim Parsons. The success of the revival led to a Netflix film adaptation with the same cast.

The Netflix version brought the story back into the public eye in an time when there are perhaps enough queer stories that there is perhaps more room for a small-scale, deeply personal story that offers a snapshot of another time, and drew from Crowley’s own life.

Learn more

[Images: 1970 and 2020 Boys in the Band posters]

[artistic-scribbles]

patrick stump should get a cat and name it catrick stump

[rantingaboutmusicals]

Andrew rannells is the definition of perfection,

Find me a photo where he isn't hot or slaying

Go ahead, I'll wait

[alebanana]

GIRL WAKE UP NEW ANDREW RANNELLS PICTURES JUST DROPPED 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

[shamelessly-obsessed]

I FINALLY have the Andrew Runnels version for y’all

At first I had Blair instead of Kevin and so to make up for the swap here’s some Blair fanart (I’m like obsessed with the portrait of him Sksksksksk)

[punk-chicken-radio]

ax trax of the week

lambrini girls - boys in the band

-ax