Image from a production of August Strindberg's 1888 play Miss Julie, about gender and sexual dynamics, as well as issues of social class.

Image from the 2013 Broadway production of Tennessee Williams' 1955 play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, starring Scarlet Johansson and Benjamin Walker. The main character is a young man dealing with his failing marriage and hidden homosexuality.

Image of the cast of Mart Crowley's 1968 play The Boys in the Band, the first play to feature openly homosexual characters.

In late June of 1969, riots erupted in New York City at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village. The resulting riots were called the Stonewall Riots, and were a catalyst for the Gay Rights Movement.

Image of the 2011 Broadway revival of The Normal Heart, the 1985 play by Larry Kramer that explores the AIDS crisis in the gay community.

An HBO movie was made of the play in 2014, watch the trailer for it here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZxR9XHS0H8

Angels in America, written by Tony Kushner in 1992, is another play dealing with issues of sexuality and the AIDS crisis during the 1980s.

The link below is of a video clip from the 2003 HBO movie of the play. Al Pacino plays a powerful lawyer who has just been told he has AIDS.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98fBiOVEcyI

The 1995 musical Rent, by Jonathan Larson, was a blockbuster hit on Broadway, and also chronicles the AIDS crisis among a group of young friends in NYC.

An example of Docudrama is Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, pictured here. Playwright Moises Kaufman drew from actual transcripts of the trials when writing the play.

Image of the 2003 play, I am My Own Wife, by Doug Wright. Wright based his play on taped conversations he had with Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, a German transvestite who survived Nazi Germany and the Soviet occupation.

Image from the original 2001 production of The Laramie Project. Click on the link to watch a short video of playwright Moises Kaufman discuss issues of identity and community in Laramie Project:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-bsjLwam9A

Image from Let me Down Easy, by Anna Deveare Smith.

Click on the link to watch a clip of her docudrama about health in the United States:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ1OyKy9FwM