critics also said that its frank treatment of lesbian subject matter would be better left to medical journals. The Captive failed to show the sexual and loving side of the lesbian relationship it was only discussed and therefore didn't fall under the same shock syndrome as its predecessor The God of Vengeance.
             Gay men soon found themselves on stage in Mae West's stage venture called The Drag. The Drag created such controversy that some of the daily papers in New York ran daily updates on the impeding threat of homosexuals on stage. The matter was not much helped when the preview performances in New Jersey were raided. What's worse the producer announced that four other plays just as daring were in the works. Only a week after the raid the Evening Post ran an article declaring that the district attorney and the police department had decided to prevent a New York production of The Drag and would subsequently arrest anyone connected with the show who tries to mount it in New York. The theatre crowd was up in arms at the tho
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