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Netflix releases ‘Boys in the Band’

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Matt Bomer, left, and Jim Parsons in a scene from ‘Boys in the Band.’ Boys in the Band opened off-Broadway in 1968, a year before Stonewall.

I was a gay teen who grew up in New York, but didn’t see it until 1970. In just two years, it had become a dated play about self-hating homosexuals.

I couldn’t really identify with those characters who were so last year. But as the only play running with gay characters, I also somehow identified. (Imagine Broadway without gay characters on stage).

In 2018, the play was revived on Broadway with an all-gay, all-star cast. It won Tony Awards and was recognized for as the insightful portrait of gay life in Greenwich Village pre-Stonewall.

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