Description:
Coming out of the closet is tough. Coming out during the AIDS crisis is another story. Set against the backdrop of the emerging AIDS crisis and a pivotal moment in LGBTQ history, a college professor must face what he truly desires.
Brief description: Dennis Martin Brooks is the penname of Dr. Dennis Perzanowski, anative Philadelphian and a New YorkUniversity graduate. He moved toMiami, Florida, to teach college-levelEnglish and linguistics, but was bittenby the theater bug. Dennis performedat the Gaslight Playhouse in CoconutGrove and in industrial commercials on Miami Beach. Proud of hisPolish heritage, but seeing his name in The Miami-Herald, he be-lieved it sounded like a Polish piano player was in the cast. One night, backstage, he picked up a book written by a J.P. Brooks, and DennisBrooks was born.Dennis did summer stock at Pennsylvania's Millbrook Playhouse, moved to New York City, and performed at St. Clement's Space. Asan extra on As the World Turns, his left foot was framed in a flashbackrebroadcast over several weeks. As residuals for his foot diminished, Dennis moved to Washington, DC, working for thirty-six years atthe U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, writing numerous articles onhuman-robot interaction, and teaching English to robots. But theaterwas still in his blood.At the Fairfax Cable Access Corporation, he created and predated(1993-1995) other gay-themed television shows with Inside/Outsidethe Beltway, known as "the soap opera with a lavender twist." It won aGLAAD award for Best Dramatic Series.In the summer of 1985, Dennis met his husband Jack on PoodleBeach in Rehoboth, Delaware. While they have been together forover forty years, they were married in 2013 on the rooftop terrace ofThe Kennedy Center.