Tony Kushner

honesty when Belize concedes that Cohn is dying.” (Tuss: “Resurrecting Masculine Spirituality in Tony Kushner's Angels in America”) Belize also gets Roy to concede to the fact that he need AZT, which is Roy admitting he has aids, something he would have never done before this moment. Belize is also the only person to identify Roy as gay to his face. “Consider it solidarity. One faggot to another.” (Kushner 161) Belize’s ability to assign this identity is based in the fact that one, he now has…

In Tony Kushner Angels in America, it speaks to a time in our nation's history, in particular, the early 80s, through the year 2000, where AIDS had affected primarily the gay community. No one knew anything about AIDS, or why it seemed to plague the homosexual community. Originally, the virus was labeled as a gay disease/cancer. One can argue that perhaps a certain segment of the homosexual population was not practicing safe sex. In addition, the virus also affected bisexual men, heterosexuals,…

Angels in America, by Tony Kushner, and Heroes and Saints, by Cherríe Moraga, examine the essence of life through the issues of constant disease, death, and madness. In Angels in America on pages 263-267, Kushner examines death and disease through the beginning of the AIDs/HIV epidemic in America. Prior Walter, a prominent character in Angels in America, is a homosexual man who has AIDs/HIV. Through his experience, Prior receives visits from the Angel of America. Prior is summoned by the Angel…

I argue that the Yellow Wall Paper by Charlotte Gilman, and Angels in America by Tony Kushner, both confront the sexual politics of the husband-wife relationships. As much as we may want to believe that inequality is a thing in the past, inequality is very much still present. The stories both symbolize unhappy wives, who not only are in agony, but both women are in torment and feel oppressed in their relationships. According to the novels, women have always come second to the male population.…

John Banville once said, “I don 't know if there is a personal identity. We all imagine that we are absolute individuals. But when we begin to look for where this individuality resides, it 's very difficult to find.” When Tony Kushner wrote Angels in America in 1992, homosexuals were still trying to find their position in society. Since homosexuals were still trying to find their positions in society, many of them were still trying to find who they were as a person. Angels in America is the play…

a different perspective may influence their judgment by giving them more knowledge and reasoning to pursue a goal or to neglect different kinds of opportunities or even responsibilities. This idea represented by the playwright and screenwriter, Tony Kushner in his drama called “Angels in America a gay fantasia on national themes”, in which, the story focuses mainly on the characters: Prior Walter and Roy Cohn, who receive a definite time of living due to their illness called Acquired Immune…

yawned in-between. The American public loved “Cats” because it was a reflection of the culture during the 1980s. Inevitably, several other “megamusicals” followed this trend of excess after “Cats” was so successful. Cats was very successful at the Tonys as well, with Best Book going to T.S. Eliot, and Best Featured Actress going to Betty Buckley as the bedraggled feline Grizzabella. People today wonder why the garish and ostentatious “Cats” was so prosperous but really, it can be attributed to…

achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative” (“American, n. and adj,” OED Online) America is not an level playing field, but rather a pyramid. I would like to further analyze this concept through the analysis of Tony…

Two Boys kissing is the catalyst for a major paradigm shift in the discourse of gay YA fiction. This just might be the discourse the LGBTQ community has been waiting for to finally shift the power away from heteronormative society. Two Boys Kissing is a blitzkrieg on what is considered a limited future by those within this community. Before this novel, queerness was seen as limited and a lifestyle choice that embraces certain death. Leviathan has penned a narrative that attempts to disrupt these…

“Angels in America” is a play written by Tony Kushner. This play is a gay fantasia that portrays the lives of and problems 5 homosexual men have had to face with the public and with each other during the Cold War era when homosexuals were not welcomed. Roy Cohn, who is a character in the play, is a lawyer who denies being a homosexual and had contracted a HIV that has put him in the hospital. Roy has occasional interactions with a ghost of someone whom he had gotten killed in the past, Ethel…