One athlete told Sokolove that both he and a friend received some negative comments – including from the friend's father – about their participation in theater, implying that only gay men would be interested in such an activity. The student remembered a classmate going after him as well when the classmate heard that he would be playing a gay character in the play, "Good Boys and True." The student actor laughed it off at first but the boy continued. Finally the student actor called his detractor an "idiot." "I'm playing a character," he told him. "You get that concept, right? It's a play, dude."
Phil Bray
