My Slumber Parties Were Notorious (Ep. 66 - Greenwich Village) (Patreon)

Before Pride, before gay marriage, before disco, before most of what we recognize today as gay culture, there was Greenwich Village. It's the gay enclave that invented gay enclaves, a place where you went to reject mainstream after the mainstream had rejected you. My guest today is playwright Robert Patrick, who wandered into the Village as an unsuspecting young gay man in the 1960s. He was only supposed to be there for a day, but he wound up staying for years, witnessing -- and participating in -- one of the most important periods in American theater history.

Watch clips of stuff we talked about in this episode: http://www.mattbaume.com/sewers-shownotes/2016/6/20/robert-patrick