Abstract
Abstract: This paper investigates how Ryan Landry, artistic director of queer camp theatre company the Gold Dust Orphans, is an undeviating deviant in both Boston and Provincetown’s queer communities. Landry’s “deviance” simultaneously cultivates queer communitas while confronting audiences on their complicity with gentrification, racism, sexism, and ableism. Rather than settling into the role of “cultural institution” in Boston theatre, Landry performs both on- and offstage in the role of radical queer misanthrope who just will not go away. Following a critical discussion of queer deviance and Landry’s influences and origins, this study examines how Landry embodies and manipulates the role of queer deviant as a performer and cultural figure.
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