Download or read book Still Acting Gay written by John M. Clum and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-06-17 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Still Acting Gay is a revision and expansion of Clum's celebrated book, Acting Gay. The book focuses on the relationship between American and British dramas written by and about gay men and the changing gay culture those plays reflect, from the carefully enforced closet to liberation politics to AIDS to the qualified security of the present. Still Acting Gay chronicles the transition of the gay man as subject for sensational melodrama to creator of many of the most powerful and celebrated plays of the late 20th century.