Ryan Landry.Creates irreverent plays to shake up gay culture After winning over audiences in Boston and Province-town, Mass., Ryan Landry has moved his Gold Dust Orphans troupe to Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . "It's theater by the people, for the people--the only way to change art is to make it more accessible," says Landry, whose 15 plays--including Rosemary's Baby Rosemary’s baby through witchcraft, child born with horns and tail. [Am. Lit.: Rosemary’s Baby] See : Witchcraft : The Musical and Joan of Arkansus--are designed to question gender stereotypes and the assimilating gay culture. "All those gay clones would dance in a gas chamber if they thought Junior Vasquez Junior Vasquez, born Donald Mattern in 1949 (some sources say c. 1946) in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, is a famous New York City club DJ and remixer/producer. Career was spinning," he says of the latter. Landry's attempts to "offer change, when all the other lemmings are running off the cliff" have earned him the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) is a nonprofit organization that supports grassroots organizing and advocacy for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights. Founded in 1973, NGLTF works to strengthen the gay and lesbian movement at the state and local levels while Community Service Award for being a vital force in American gay theater. |
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