Reflections

Synopsis:

Reflections takes place in 1968. The story about Marc, a sexually confused Jewish sixteen-year-old who becomes an intimate friend with an effeminate Paul. Peter is Marc’s straight friend.   But when Marc meets Mary, a born-again Christian, Marc decides to convert to Christianity in the hopes of being able to have sex with Mary and prove to himself and the world that he is straight.  

Notes: the video link is a filmed version of the reading in Las Vegas as part of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Region 8. This is my bio--From a young child, Gordon Blitz was called a sissy, girlie, fag, queer, and homo. Getting towel whipped, stomach punched and spit on were part of his world. He never found his writer’s voice until he retired in 2017 after forty years of accounting and became a passionate writing machine. In February 2023, his play Reflections won at the Region 8 Kennedy Center American Theater Festival in Las Vegas, Nevada and became a semi-finalist for the National Festival in Washington D.C. His 2021 novella Shipped Off was published in the Running Wild Press Novella Anthology Volume 4, Book 1. During 2023, his novels Stretched Love (Tofu Ink Arts Press) and Harmonic Dissonance (Shortish Project) were published. Ten of his autobiographical stories are available on the Queer Slam Podcast Episode 21.He participated in the writing and performing of the 2022 film, Queers Across the Years- link below. Additionally, he wrote and performed in Queerly Imparted at the Skylight Theater in Los Angeles as part of the World AIDS Day celebration