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— by Jerome Gomez: Netflix recently premiered the second film adaptation of “The Boys in the Band.” Starring Jim Parsons of “Big Bang Theory”, and Zachary Quinto who plays Spock in the “Star Trek” movies, the film comes from the 1968 Mart Crowley play about a group of gay men who throw their friend a birthday party in a Manhattan apartment. By putting contemporary gay life in the spotlight, “The Boys in the Band” was considered a groundbreaking achievement when it first came out, and was supposed to have inspired the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York…

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