Why is a famous heterosexual love story the centrepiece of this year’s Glasgay?

It’s all about context, festival director Steven Thomson tells Mark Fisher.

If YOU want an idea of the philosophy that drives the annual Glasgay! festival, just look at this year’s centrepiece production. Say what you like about Harold and Maude, the cult 1971 movie adapted for the stage in 1980 by original screenwriter Colin Higgins, but by most definitions, it isn’t a gay play at all.

 

True, its author was a gay man whose humanitarian foundation still gives out Youth Courage Awards for “bravery in the face of discrimination, intolerance and bigotry”, but Harold and Maude’s love story is a straight one. What makes it interesting is that Harold is a morose young man barely out of his teens, while Maude is a go-getting optimist nearing her 80th birthday.

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