The show opened with the announcer's introduction: "A gay, new comedy about the life and loves of a secretary in Manhattan.

She winds up with the instant formulaic dish of gay comedy.

"It was certain that a fresh talent for gay, buoyant comedy had come into the theater," Brooks Atkinson crowed in his review the next morning.

Alternative Voices, on Nov. 6, will feature black, Hispanic and gay comedy.

Jeffrey is a 1995 American gay romantic comedy directed by Christopher Ashley.

Whatever its faults, New York theatre has virtually patented a new form: the gay comedy of manners.

The play is widely recognised as giving the illusion of being a light gay comedy in the first act before taking a darker, powerful turn in the second.

The affirmation from that activism made me feel good enough about myself to try doing up-front gay stand-up comedy.