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Together Together’ hits Sundance with Patti Harrison, Tig Notaro
Together Together, a new comedy making its debut at the 2021 very online Sundance Film Festival, is another push forward for trans actors. The movie’s co-star, comedian Patti Harrison (Shrill), is a transgender comedian who’s already got a reputation for turning perceptions about comedy upside down. In TT, she plays opposite Ed Helms as a young loner who goes to work for him, and their growing relationship forms the basis of the story.
No word on whether her character is trans or what the on-screen relationship entails, but what’s exciting here is that a trans actor is co-headlining a feature. With the exception of Laverne Cox in the remake of
The Artist s Wife).
On May 13, 1920, Cyril Wilcox, a
sophomore at Harvard, took his own life. The night before, Wilcox
confessed to his brother that he was gay and had been having an
affair with a Boston man. Wilcox s confession led Harvard to create a
Secret Court to investigate claims of gay activity on campus. Eight
students, four “accomplices,” and a handful of locals were tried
by the court. The students were expelled and purged from official
records. The incident was kept secret until 2002.
Quinto said in a statement that the
students were “sidelined due to the social intolerance of their
27 December 2020
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Zachary Quinto is headed back to college to tell a tragic century-old story about homophobia at Harvard University.
The Star Trek actor will voice and produce the scripted audio series about events which took place at the top U.S.
university in 1920, when staff members quietly removed a group of gay students, following the tragic suicide of one of them, named Cyril Wilcox.
Academic leaders had founded their own Secret Court to investigate the death, which led not only to the remaining men being expelled from Harvard but to the excising of their names from the institution s academic records as if they had never existed.
Boys in the Band star Zachary Quinto (Getty/ANGELA WEISS)
Zachary Quinto is to produce and star in a new audio drama podcast shedding light on Harvard University’s attempts to purge gay students.
The
Boys in the Bandstar is set to delve back into queer culture with upcoming scripted podcast series
Secret Court, which tells the true story of a purge of gay students from the Harvard class of 1920.
After gay Harvard sophomore Cyril Wilcox took his own life, the university had instigated a secret court led by the university’s president and deans, which dedicated itself to eradicating rumoured “homosexual activity” among the student population.