The Sad Spectacle of ‘Drag Queen Story Hour’ No, the female impersonators reading stories to children aren’t ‘groomers.’ They’re just needy gay men desperate for validation from straight society. Sky Gilbert 26 Feb 2023 · 11 min read
With Theatres Shuttered, I Tried to Stage a 'Zoom Play.' (It Didn't Work) I once directed a classical musical—Anything Goes—at Canada’s Shaw Festival. But that’s the only play I’ve directed that was seen by a large audience. Sky Gilbert 9 Mar 2021 · 7 min read
R.M. Vaughan (1965–2020): A Beautiful Mind Silently Extinguished in a Time of Fear We were Oscar Wilde’s great-grand-nephews, dandy aesthetes obsessed as much with the curl of our hair as with art or politics. Sky Gilbert 6 Nov 2020 · 7 min read
For Gay Men Who Came of Age in the 1980s, a Grim Sense of Déja Vu Surrounding all of these movements has been the metaphorical connection of disease with not only illness, but also impurity more generally—concepts that have obvious and horrifying linkages to racist political movements. Sky Gilbert 12 Apr 2020 · 8 min read
By Seeking ‘Safer Spaces’ for Actors, We’re Creating a Hostile Environment for Art I honestly have no idea why any actor would want to appear in a serious play featuring protagonists who are not, in some way, “screwed up.” Sky Gilbert 7 Feb 2020 · 8 min read
The Rise of ‘Drag Kids’—and the Death of Gay Culture There was—and will always be—promiscuity, homosexuality, prostitution, fetish culture and adultery—because sex is human. Sky Gilbert 10 Aug 2019 · 12 min read
Quillette Podcast 36 – Gay Icon Sky Gilbert on Being Excommunicated by the LGBT Theater Company he Founded Quillette / Sky Gilbert 7 Jun 2019 ·
Watching My Own Excommunication—on a Facebook Video The behavior on display in that video didn’t originate in a place of reason, but rather the realm of spiritual passions. Sky Gilbert 1 Jun 2019 · 11 min read
Homophobia and the Modern Trans Movement Gender dysphoria gradually has replaced homosexuality as a subject of fascination by clinicians and activists. Sky Gilbert 31 Jan 2019 · 13 min read
If That's What It Means to Be a Writer, I Quit Kauffman defended himself from charges of homophobia by saying that he wasn’t against the ‘gay influence’ in theatre, only its insidiousness. Sky Gilbert 26 Nov 2018 · 14 min read
