'I wanted to write a play about two boys falling in love and give it a happy ending. During the Aids crisis, it was unusual for a gay character to be alive at the end of a drama' I wrote Beautiful Thing quickly in the summer of 1992. It came from the heart. The age of consent debate was going on " back then, gay men had to be 21 to have sex. The rhetoric used in parliament was so archaic, with words like "buggery" an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:55AM on September 4, 2023