Making the Boys / First Run Features.

Before Prop 8, Will and Grace, AIDS, gay pride, or Stonewall, there was The Boys in the Band. Crayton Robey’s film explores the enduring legacy of the first ever gay play and subsequent Hollywood movie to reach a mainstream audience successfully. Beloved by some for breaking new ground and condemned...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:	Films on Demand.
Corporate Authors:	Infobase (Film distributor) First-Run Features (Firm)
Language:	English
Language of the Original:	English
Language and/or Writing System:	Closed-captioned.
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : First Run Features, [2011]
Series:	Films on Demand.
Subjects:	Communication. Mass media > Study and teaching. Internet videos.
Genre:	Internet videos.
Online Access:	Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (Films On Demand @ Infobase)
Physical Description:	1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr., 32 min., 45 sec)) : sound, color.
Format:	Electronic Video

Contents:

"Boys in the Band" (4:50); Mart Crawley's Early Life (6:23); Crawley in Hollywood (3:22); Homophobia in the 1960s (4:21); Gay Playwrights (5:27); Crawley Returns to New York (7:36); Producing "Boys in the Band" (6:26); "Boys in the Band" Opens (4:16); Success of "Boys in the Band" (4:27); Stonewall Riots (2:35); "Boys in the Band" Movie (7:04); Impact of "Boys in the Band" (5:22); Gay Culture in the 1970s (4:15); Crawley's Second Break (3:36); Stigma of "Boys in the Band" (6:01); HIV/AIDS Outbreak (5:00); Knowing Gay History (8:33); Credits: Making the Boys (2:58);