Temperamentals

"Temperamental" was code for "homosexual" in the early 1950s, part of a secret language gay men used to communicate. Marans' hit off-Broadway play, tells the story of two men--the communist Harry Hay and the Viennese refugee and designer Rudi Gernreich--as they fall in love while building the Mattachine Society, the first gay rights organization in the pre-Stonewall United States.