Outward: Special Episode: The Inheritance
b'OIn this special bonus episode of Outward, Bryan and a guest panel of multigenerational gay men devote a whole hour to\\xa0The Inheritance, a seven-hour, two-part play by Matthew Lopez that won many awards for its recent run in London and is currently dominating discussions on Broadway.\\xa0There will be spoilers!\\nWhile it\\u2019s length, ambition, and engagement with the AIDS crisis have invited comparisons to Tony Kushner\\u2019s \\u201cgay fantasia on national themes\\u201d\\xa0Angels in America,\\xa0The Inheritance\\u2019s driving concern is a bit more personal: If gay men think of ourselves as a community spanning generations, what happens when a huge swath of that community is lost to plague, the survivors deeply traumatized, and younger cohorts must therefore come of age and figure out what it means to be gay in the wake of a tragedy that shapes everything around us? Borrowing a line from E.M. Forester\\u2019s\\xa0Howard\\u2019s End, on which the play is based,\\xa0The Inheritance\\xa0desperately wants gay men to \\u201cconnect\\u201d across age and loss \\u2014 but is that kind of connection really possible?\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'