Gay Life Experiences In The Play Andre's Mother

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Society determines the culture and values that are acceptable for the majority to live by. Some people don’t fit within those values and find that their way of life has additional challenges. Terrance Mcnally, author, librettist, and screen writer used his gay life experiences to describe an interaction that many gay people may have experienced with their family members that don’t live a gay lifestyle. In his play, “Andre’s Mother”, he shares strengths and weakness of a gay man that just passed, the relationship he had with his partner, the estranged love and fear relationship for family, Aids, and having faith for a religion that typically does not welcome homosexuals. HIV was first discovered in 1981 as reported by the CDC and is the first process that will turn into Aids. Aids which was coined the gay plague because it affected gay males at greater levels due to their sexual lifestyle in the late eighties. Most people that carry HIV simply are not aware that they are a carrier, especially in the 80’s. This play was written in 1988 which was 7 years after the discovery of Aids and touches on the fact that his character Andre died from Aids. His surviving partner was tested for HIV and his results came back negative and he tried to explain this to the …show more content…
He didn’t share to his partner how he received HIV and left him to wander. He didn’t communicate to his family about his partner or his love for being in Hamlet to his family. His partner on the other hand expressed deep gratitude for Andre. His partner tells his family how proud they would have been and he calls Andre a sweet prince and magnificent. The love he had for Andre was real and he was willing to give all he had left of him to try to share what he known about Andre to his family that barely knew him to try to give them comfort in seeing the type of person that he was and not for his lifestyle or what he died
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