Into the Grindr in the Gay Matchmaking Games: Intercourse, Demise, and Aging in ‘Stealing Sam’

Into the Grindr in the Gay Matchmaking Games: Intercourse, Demise, and Aging in ‘Stealing Sam’

Steven Gallagher’s prize-winning one-man gamble sees an HIV-positive homosexual people inside the 40s attempt a fraught dual mission—to value the desires of a dead friend and discover relationship.

Tim Teeman

Elder Editor and Creator

Racheal McCaig

Intercourse, death, admiration, HIV, affairs, and matchmaking over 40: the playwright and actor Steven Gallagher and that I talked, sporadically loudly, about these items over various rounds of cocktails one latest nights in Toronto.

This Sunday day, Gallagher, 49, gives his award-winning one-person gamble, taking Sam, to New York’s United Solo movie theater Festival on Theater Row after a much-garlanded record in Canada, in which it obtained Best of edge and Patron’s select during the Toronto Fringe Festival in 2013, and was actually awarded exceptional unique Play, creation, star, and movie director from today journal.

In the play, Gallagher takes on Jimmy, who has been buddies making use of the unseen Sam for over 25 years. Continue reading “Into the Grindr in the Gay Matchmaking Games: Intercourse, Demise, and Aging in ‘Stealing Sam’”