Described in the 70s as A Chorus Line for gay people Crimes Against Nature remains vital today as a communal disclosure of roles that gay people adopt in order to survive in a world that devalues homosexual feelings It features individual actors delivering revealing monologues during which the other members of the collective play background roles parents schoolmates etc One by one the actors detail the ways in which they have buried their true selves in order to survive and be accepted in the world repression drug use shyness being agreeable putting experiences into little boxes acting butch and so on
