Kyle Thomas Hemingway: The ephemera edit

An ongoing digital archive of 1,390 items (and counting) proving that I read, I saw, and I actually paid attention.

Collection

LGBTQIA+

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  • The Sleeping Car Porter

    The Sleeping Car Porter

    by Suzette Mayr

    “Even when he stands still, he moves. Baxter flickers everywhere and nowhere. A blink in a shuddering train window.”

  • Bros

    Bros

    Directed by Nicholas Stoller

    “It’s this new hookup app my company is launching. We’ve got Grindr. We’ve got Tinder. This is Zellweger. It’s for gay guys who just want to talk about actresses, then go to bed.”

  • Kinky Boots

    Kinky Boots

    Music and lyrics by Cyndi Lauper / Book by Harvey Fierstein / Based on “Kinky Boots” by Geoff Deane and Tim Firth / Directed and choreographed by Kevin P. Hill (North Shore Music Theatre, Beverly MA)

    Curtain call at Kinky Boots
  • Hairspray

    Hairspray

    Music by Marc Shaiman / Lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman / Book by Mark O’Donnell and Thomas Meehan / Based on “Hairspray” by John Waters / Directed by directed by Jack O’Brien (Broadway in Boston, Boston, MA)

    Curtain call at Hairspray
  • A Strange Loop

    A Strange Loop

    Book, music, and lyrics by Michael R. Jackson / Directed by Stephen Brackett (Lyceum Theatre, New York City, NY)

    Curtain call at A Strange Loop
  • When Brooklyn Was Queer

    When Brooklyn Was Queer

    by Hugh Ryan

    “But nothing lasts forever, even silence.”

  • Do You Mind If I Cancel? (Things That Still Annoy Me)

    Do You Mind If I Cancel? (Things That Still Annoy Me)

    by Gary Janetti

    “Let’s see, what else? Don’t go into debt over clothes. Hug your dogs while you have them. Know that you can skip most anything. You will fall in love eventually. Remember that. Also, the things you like aren’t weird. Don’t worry about being normal. It’s an awful thing to aspire to.”

  • Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

    Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

    by Jeremy Atherton Lin

    “I found myself taking more risks, because failure had a second life—it could spin a yarn. There was an agency in the retelling, in the self-deprecation and of course self-mythologizing. Memoir is how you groom yourself. Memoir is drag.”

  • The Inheritance, Parts 1 and 2

    The Inheritance, Parts 1 and 2

    by Matthew López / Inspired by “Howards End” by E. M. Forster / Directed by Paul Daigneault (Speakeasy Stage Company)

    Curtain call at The Inheritance, Part 2
  • Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

    Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

    by David Wojnarowicz

    “I’m getting closer to the coast and realize how much I hate arriving at a destination. Transition is always a relief. Destination means death to me. If I could figure out a way to remain forever in transition, in the disconnected and unfamiliar, I could remain in a state of perpetual freedom.”

  • Notes on ‘Camp’

    Notes on ‘Camp’

    by Susan Sontag

    “In naïve, or pure, Camp, the essential element is seriousness, a seriousness that fails. Of course, not all seriousness that fails can be redeemed as Camp. Only that which has the proper mixture of the exaggerated, the fantastic, the passionate, and the naïve.”

  • Dancer from the Dance

    Dancer from the Dance

    by Andrew Holleran

    “Now of all the bonds between homosexual friends, none was greater than that between friends who danced together. The friend you danced with, when you had no lover, was the most important person in your life; and for people who went without lovers for years, that was all they had.”

  • Dueling Drag Divas

    Dueling Drag Divas

    Jo Anna and Chi Chi Rones (Maine Street Ogunquit)

    The grand finale
  • Drag ’N Drive Saves 2021

    Drag ’N Drive Saves 2021

    Wrentham Village Premium Outlets Parking Lot

    Patrick wins a prize and a hug from Gottmik
  • The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America

    The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America

    by Eric Cervini

    “In only a decade, homosexuals had graduated from criminals—merely incarcerated after homosexual activity—to mentally ill criminals subject to psychiatric remedies, which included shock therapy, castration, and lobotomies.”

  • The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America

    The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America

    by Isaac Butler and Dan Kois

    “A few months into the run, the woman who gave me my massage on Fridays before the show said, ‘It’s the weirdest thing. You seem to be developing wing muscles.’ Because there were these ridges of muscle I’d developed alongside my spine where I flexed the wings, opening and closing them.”

  • The Stonewall Reader

    The Stonewall Reader

    Edited by the New York Public Library

    “The queens took the lead in the Stonewall Riots. They walked around in semi-drag with teased hair and false eyelashes on and they didn’t give a shit what anybody thought about them. What did they have to lose? Absolutely fucking nothing.”

  • The Inheritance, Parts 1 and 2

    The Inheritance, Parts 1 and 2

    by Matthew López / Inspired by “Howards End” by E. M. Forster / Directed by Stephen Daldry (Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York City, NY)

    Curtain call at The Inheritance, Part 2
  • The Cake

    The Cake

    by Bekah Brunstetter / Directed by Courtney O’Connor (Lyric Stage Company of Boston)

    Curtain call at The Cake
  • Mashrou Leila

    Mashrou Leila

    Global Arts Live (The Sinclair)

    Mashrou Leila performs