ABSTRACT
Queer and “radically disabled” playwright Ron Whyte is largely absent from prevailing theatre histories, but from the 1960s until his death in 1989 the interdisciplinary writer, activist, and administrator authored some of the most politically complicated and forceful examinations of disability and sexuality American theatre would ever know. Whyte foregrounded queer sexuality in his theatrical and historical explorations of disability, narrative, and form, championing queer and disabled dramaturgies that confronted audiences’ ableist fantasies and cultivated desire for disability embodiment, history, and aesthetics.
