Sewers of Paris: A Boy in the Country (Ep 366 - The Wizard of Oz/Tyler Dwiggins)
My guest on the Sewers of Paris podcast this week is playwright Tyler Dwiggins, who grew up in an isolated, rural Indiana farm town where there wasn’t much in the way of arts — especially if someone else needed to use the school’s combination auditorium/cafeteria. That’s why today he produces the kind of stuff he was looking for back then, starting with a series of queer-inclusive plays for high schools.
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Great interview but I find it kinda weird that black gay men are not called twink. Or maybe I just never hear it used.
You know, that's a good point -- I've definitely heard the term applied to gay Black men but it certainly seems to be used more generally to refer to one particular skin tone. I wrote a video a few years ago about this history of "twink" and (in a queer context at least) it emerged from some very particular genres of adult media in the 80s, so I suspect a lot of that baggage has just stuck around.
Perfect podcast for work, I get to daydream of what it would have been like to perform these plays when I was in high school 🖤