Sometimes the Daddy who taught us to dance, must dance to the beat of his own drum...

Sometimes a daughter must let her father live his truth, even if she disagrees.

Sometimes love must be enough.

A daughter must know...

Sometimes Gay Means Happy

SYNOPSIS:

Sometimes Gay Means Happy [currently in stage play format, formerly in teleplay format] tells the story of Tori Roth, In 1988, as the AIDS epidemic was claiming the lives of many individuals, and caused panic and

misunderstanding, confusion and prejudice toward groups of people and how the disease was spread.

Sometimes Gay Means Happy focuses on some of these misunderstandings; about the relationship between a gay father and his adult daughter. Many men, in order to be true to themselves and their female spouses and children, were coming out the of closet. In my story, Tori, a teen when her father comes out and leaves her mother for a man -- takes his homosexuality as a lack of love for his children, and also, his coming out as rejection of her and her sister.

The play opens upon Tori, now a married 29-year-old wife (to husband, a lawyer, Stephen Osborne). She is

newscaster in New Jersey and is doing the entertainment news -- she handed incoming special bulletin news that a top Broadway actor, Victor Rothchild, has collapsed during rehearsal [apparent heart attack]. The actor is her estranged father, Victor.

At the hospital, Victor's longtime partner, David, reveal it was a symptom of AIDS and his time is near -- as this is still in the time of AZT and not the inhibitors of today -- Victor has a last one wish: to reunite with his daughter, Tori, and meet his first and only grandchild, Crystal, before the end.

Viola, Tori's younger sister, the doting daughter to Victor is asked to compel here sister, Tori to forgive and reunite with Victor. Tori's husband also encourages a reconciliation before its too late; as resentment and this years long estrangement is affecting Tori adversely.

Tori is mixed and upon deciding to, at the very least, visit Victor, she runs into David. David, whom she believes gave her father AIDS. Tori learns a lot from her confrontation with Victor's lover. Tori finally sees Victor and they strive to heal themselves and each other in a few short weeks, and come to accepting the inevitable point in life when we must say goodbye to a parent, and realize that love for one's child has

nothing to do with sexual preference.