E313 - Ep. 313: Fire Island's Queer Theater Renaissance: Matt Freeman on Change Arts & the Fire Island Theatre Festival

Guest: Matt Freeman — theater educator, arts administrator, and founder of Change Arts

Growing up in the On Tour Company magnet theater program in Belmore/Merrick, NYBeing closeted alongside other gay classmates in the '90s vs. kids coming out todayComing out to his parents the same night his father later came out too — on Fire Island, at nearly 70How Matt found Fire Island through his husband Adam, and their move from weekly rentals to homeownership in Cherry GroveFire Island's queer theatrical history: 1930s Broadway "theater people," the 1938 hurricane, and how lesbians preserved Cherry Grove's queer identity during the AIDS...