CRIMES AGAINST NATURE: a play by faggots about survival by [GAY MEN’S THEATER COLLECTIVE] [photography by Joey Knutson]

San Francisco: The Collective & Gumption Theater, 1977. 14 x 11 1/2 inch poster for the original production featuring a b&w photo of the cast behind a chain-link & barbed-wire fence. Poster for the theatre-piece created from oral-histories and confessionals. Back in 1977, when gay liberation was still fairly new and gay-identified theater was just being born, the Gay Men's Theater Collective sparked something of a theatrical revolution with the confrontational style and confessional content of its collectively created "Crimes Against Nature." Widely regarded as one of the seminal gay theater productions, "Crimes" played for nearly two years in Santa Cruz, Toronto and New York. The impact of AIDS is particularly evident, and not just in its absence from the pre-pandemic monologues. Six of the 11 original creators and performers - Charles Solomon, Greg Kollenborn, Timo Lupine-Child, Tommy Pace, Anthony Eschbach and Martin Worman - have died of the disease in the intervening years." Robert Hurwitt, SF Examiner. Very good or better. Not in OCLC.