The stage play and William Friedkin's 1970 film version were considered groundbreaking 50 years ago for putting gay characters front and center, warts and all. ![]() But the booze-soaked night takes a turn when Michael's homophobic, maybe closeted college roommate, Alan (Brian Hutchison), shows up unannounced, and the men begin to air their resentments: for each other, and a society that has conditioned them to hate themselves. The drama unfolds in a chic New York apartment in the late ’60s, where Michael (Parsons) is hosting a birthday party for his friend Harold (Quinto) and their pals, all of whom are gay. The movie reunites the Broadway cast of the play's 2018 Tony Award-winning revival, which starred Parsons, Zachary Quinto ("Star Trek"), Andrew Rannells ("Girls") and Matt Bomer ("White Collar"). Now, Parsons, 47, leads the all-gay cast of Netflix's "The Boys in the Band" (streaming Wednesday), adapted from Mart Crowley's 1968 play. ![]() It was a life-changing experience for the four-time Emmy winner, who publicly came out in 2012 and married his longtime partner, TV producer Todd Spiewak, in 2017.
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