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Love! Valour! Compassion!

by Terrence McNally · 1995

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The play revolves around eight gay men who gather for three summer weekends at a lakeside house in Dutchess County, New York, where they relax, reflect, and plan for survival in an era plagued by AIDS.

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Love! Valour! Compassion! won the 1995 Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for best Play, along with several other awards. McNally later adapted the script for the 1997 film of the same name.

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LGBTLGBTMore like thisLess of thisliterary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of thisgaygayMore like thisLess of this
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1990s1990sMore like thisLess of thisUSAUSAMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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short · 104 pages
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