The Glines

Founded in 1976 by John Glines, Barry Laine and Jerry Tobin, The Glines is an American not-for-profit organization based in New York City, New York, devoted to creating and presenting gay art to develop positive self-images and dispel negative stereotyping.

Awards

Productions

Other notable successes produced by The Glines include:

  • Jane Chambers’s[4] Last Summer at Bluefish Cove,[5] My Blue Heaven[6] and The Quintessential Image[7]
  • Doric Wilson’s A Perfect Relationship and Forever After[8]
  • Victor Bumbalo’s Niagara Falls
  • Richard Hall’s Love Match
  • Sydney Morris’s If This Isn’t Love! and The Wind Beneath My Wings[9]
  • Arch Brown’s Newsboy[10] and Sex Symbols[11]
  • Joseph Pintauro’s Wild Blue[12]
  • Anthony Bruno’s Soul Survivor
  • Robert Patrick’s T-Shirts and Untold Decades[13]
  • Tom Wilson Weinberg’s musical Get Used to It![14]
  • An Evening With Quentin Crisp[15]
  • a number of plays by John Glines, including On Tina Tuna Walk, Men Of Manhattan, Body And Soul and Murder In Disguise
  • plus the First and Second Gay American Arts Festivals in 1980 and 1981.[16][17]

A benefit in 1982 was given by The Glines was at The Town Hall, a performance space in New York City, consisting of three one-act plays: The Quintessential Image by Jane Chambers (with Peg Murray in the title role), Forget Him by Harvey Fierstein (with Harvey Fierstein, Estelle Getty and Court Miller), and A Loss of Memory by Arthur Laurents (with Richard DeFabees, who played Arnold in matinée performances of Torch Song Trilogy).[18]

The Glines broke into television in 1986 with its acclaimed production of Hero of My Own Life, a documentary on the life of a person living with AIDS.[19]

Artists

Among the many artists who have appeared (or whose work has appeared) with The Glines are:

gollark: Of course, I do know the answers to all the questions.
gollark: According to my IQ test, my IQ is about 800.
gollark: And humans don't really have one as much as vague fuzzy processes for guessing what they should do at the time.
gollark: You can't blame it on imperfect information. People just *do not do what their self-professed goals say they should*.
gollark: Have you *seen* people? Humans aren't rational beings.

References
  1. Mel Gussow, "Theater: Fierstein's Torch Song", The New York Times, November 1, 1981.
  2. Frank Rich, "Stage: 'As Is,' About AIDS, Opens" Archived May 3, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, March 11, 1985.
  3. Stephen Holden, "Theater Review: Dusting Off the Spirit of Ziegfeld", The New York Times, July 5, 1993.
  4. The Eight Faces of Jane
  5. The Purple Circuit, Old Plays are Gold
  6. Beth A. Kattelman, Chambers, Jane (1937-1983) Archived 2010-11-13 at the Wayback Machine glbtq, a web-based "encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender & queer culture"
  7. Stephen Holden, "Review/Theater; Comedy of Self-Acceptance And a Portrait of Its Writer", The New York Times, August 17, 1989.
  8. On Forever After Doric Wilson website
  9. If This Isn’t Love! Doollee.com
  10. Arch Brown biography Arch Brown website
  11. Sex Symbols Doollee.com
  12. Stephen Holden, "Stage: Short Plays on Gay Themes", The New York Times, September 20, 1987.
  13. Robert Patrick Doollee.com
  14. Gary L. Day Weinberg’s "Get Used to It!" PGN March 27—April 2, 1992, Archived July 10, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  15. Anita Gates, "Crisp, So Stylishly 89, Gets To the Point, Well, Crisply", The New York Times, June 26, 1998.
  16. Happy Gay Day "Today in History (May 19) 1980" The Malcontent website Archived 2007-12-14 at the Wayback Machine
  17. Gay and Lesbian Theatre Festival
  18. Long Island Journal, The New York Times, October 10, 1982.
  19. John Corry, Hero of My Own Life, Story of AIDS Patient", The New York Times, June 23, 1986.
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