The super gay ‘Boys in the Band’ trailer has arrived
The long-awaited trailer for the even longer awaited new Netflix adaptation of The Boys in the Band has arrived. The first images of 1960s New York take us back to a very different time before the modern queer rights movement that began with the Stonewall Uprising.As penned by playwright Mart Crowley, The Boys in the Band caused a sensation when it debuted off-Broadway in 1969.
The play follows the interactions of a group of gay men over the course of a single, all-night birthday party. As the booze flows, tensions rise, and dark truths begin to overtake the partygoers.Related: The all-gay cast of “The Boys in the Band” revival thinks there’s something you need to knowAlternatively praised for its humanizing portrayal of gay men and derided.
