Photo from Eugene O'Neill's 1929 Broadway success, Strange Interlude

Photo from Eugene O'Neill's 1929 Broadway success, Strange Interlude

1987-04-01

Photo from Eugene O'Neill's 1929 Broadway success, Strange Interlude, featuring Lynn Fontanne, with Tom Powers playing the first gay character in English dramatic literature with "any sympathy or real insight." Photo used in the Alyson Publications book We Can Always Call Them Bulgarians: The Emergence of Lesbians and Gay Men on the American Stage, by Kaier Curtin.

Alyson Publications

Lynn Fontanne

Tom Powers

Credit: The Billy Rose Theatre Collection, The New York Public Library at Lincoln Center, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.

The History Project: Documenting LGBTQ Boston

GCN.ORG.00065

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