On a park bench in Dupont Circle, two men get acquainted over small talk: The health properties of milk, the guests at Sen. Joe McCarthy’s wedding, the spelling of Roy Cohn’s name. It’s 1953, and the ...

The opera Fellow Travelers tells the story of two men who were government employees and fell in love. When it premiered in 2016, it was less than a year after the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled that gay ...

A forbidden love story between two men whose discovery would cause them to lose their livelihoods. A system that does not accept anyone who doesn’t fit into strict parameters. Raw emotional and ...

Set during the McCarthy-era Lavender Scare of the 1950s, the opera by composer Gregory Spears and librettist Greg Pierce opened Saturday at McCaw Hall, marking the first time a production centered on ...