by Geoff Cobb 
Mae West was much more than a local-born movie star or even a sex symbol. She was a playwright, a woman decades ahead of her time in dramatizing questions of gender and sexuality. Her views almost a century ago were remarkably progressive when it came to homosexuality and those views were never better dramatized than in her…
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Interesting story. If it ran on Broadway today it would probably be a flop since it wasn’t racy enough.
it was a flop and dressing it up as some flaming progressive rewrite is typical of todays revisionists.
I think it was ahead of its time and not so much of a flop as too controversial for its day.
How could it be a flop if it didn’t even make it to Broadway? Lol….
Mae West was an incredible woman so ahead of her time. I have driven by two houses she lived in, in Bushwick Brooklyn but there isn’t anything posted or nothing paying homage to her. At least a sign saying that she once lived there. I have gone to her resting spot at Cypress Hills cemetery and payed my respects to her. She did so much for the LGBT community before there was one and she didn’t tolerate racism either. She once was told they didn’t want any black people residing in a apartment building she lived in and she wasn’t happy with that rule. So she changed it when she decided to buy the building. That is Classic Mae West.