Envisioning Queer Liberation: The Performance of Communal Visibility in Doric Wilson’s <i>Street Theater</i>
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Doric Wilson’s 1982 comedy Street Theater is one of the most enduring plays to emerge from the gay theatre movement, and this article argues for its significance as a pioneering work that represents the Stonewall Riots and the theatre itself as sites for the creation of queer community. Building on Jill Dolan’s theorization of the utopian performative and communitas, I examine how Wilson combined the ethos of off-off-Broadway and the activism of the gay liberation movement to create theatre by, for, about, and near LGBT people. With archival research supporting dramaturgical analysis of the play, the article demonstrates how Street Theater perpetuated the mission of Wilson’s ground-breaking theatre company, TOSOS (The Other Side of Silence), gained acclaim for a production staged in a gay leather bar, became a staple of the “purple circuit,” and continues to promote the re-enactment of queer communal visibility.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.014 | 0.022 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".