Actors from United Fruit Company in costume
Theater Offensive
Rybeck, Abe
United Fruit Company
In 1989, founding Artistic Director Abe Rybeck and a group of artist/activists formed The Theater Offensive to expand on the success of the gay men's guerrilla theater troupe, United Fruit Company. The Theater Offensive mounts and produces festivals and individual productions by national and local queer performers, and also serves as a development environment for new theatrical work. In addition, The Theater Offensive works to build community through education, outreach, and political activism. In this photograph, Abe Rybeck and other actors from United Fruit Company are posing in costume outside a concrete building.
Debbie Rich
The History Project, Inc.
1986
Please credit Debbie Rich. Email info@historyproject.org for information about rights, reproductions, etc.
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Three actresses from Split Britches
Boston Women in Theatre Festival
Margolin, Deborah
Shaw, Peggy
Weaver, Lois
Split Britches
Weiss, Eva
This is a promotional photograph for the lesbian performance group Split Britches in their original play "Upwardly Mobile Home." From left to right are founding members Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw, and Deborah Margolin. Split Britches performed at the Boston Women's Theatre Festival in 1985. <br /><br />This photograph was taken by Eva Weiss, the original is color, 11x11 square, and <a href="https://evaweissphotography.com/Artist.asp?ArtistID=29262&Akey=T8LNVX45&ajx=1#!Group1_Pf76363">is available on the photographer's website.</a>
Eva Weiss
1985
Email info@historyproject.org for information about rights, reproductions, etc. for the Gay Community News Photograph collection. <br /><br /><a href="https://evaweissphotography.com/Artist.asp?ArtistID=29262&Akey=T8LNVX45&ajx=1#!asset29236">Contact photographer Eva Weiss for additional information about this photograph.</a>
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Promotional photograph for a production by the musical "Ten Percent Revue" called "Walk on Washington"
Ten Percent Revue
Firestone, Jenifer
Hardit, Paul
Snow, Helena
Humphrey, James
Jenifer Firestone, Paul Hardit, Helena Snow, and James Humphrey pose for a production of the "Ten Percent Revue" called "Walk on Washington." The four actors hold signs reading: "Celebrate Sodomy," "Take Apartheid Apart," Foster Equality," and "$$$ For AIDS Not For War." The "Ten Percent Revue," chosen as a "Critic's Choice" by <em>Time</em>, was the long-running Off-Broadway musical hit that celebrates gay and lesbian life with humor and honesty.
Khristine Hopkins
The History Project, Inc.
no date
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Nine cast members from a Triangle Theater Company production of "The Boy's in the Band"
Triangle Theater Company
The cast of a Triangle Theater production of "Boys in the Band" standing in two rows by height, staring at the camera without smiling. The Triangle Theater Company was founded in 1979 by David M. Hough. Named for the pink triangles used to mark gay men in Nazi concentration camps, Triangle Theater sought to provide a supportive environment in which gay men and women could work in theater.
Steve Weise
The HIstory Project, Inc.
no date
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Four women of the Mood Swings posing with various attitudes
Mood Swings
Qamar, Cheryl
The Mood Swings was an improvisational theater groups dealing with the issues of lesbians recovering from alcoholism. Karen, Liz, Cheryl Qamar, and Alice of the Mood Swings sitting in chairs and posing with difference expressions.
Susan Fleischmann
The History Project, Inc.
1982
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Three Theater Offensive actors dressed for a performance
United Fruit Company
Rybeck, Abe
Theater Offensive
Abe Rybeck and two other actors from the Theater Offensive posing in costume.
unknown
The History Project, Inc.
no date
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