Selections from The Temperamentals, by Alliance Repertory Theatre Company. The Temperamentals garnered rave reviews in NYC and received Best Play nominations from both the Lucille Lortel and Outer Critics Circle for 2010. ” Temperamental ” was code for ” homosexual ” in the early 1950′s, part of a created language of secret words that gay men used to communicate. THE TEMPERAMENTALS tells the story of two men – the communist Harry Hay and the Viennese refugee and designer Rudi Gernreich – as they fall in love while building the first gay rights organization in the pre-Stonewall United States, The Mattachine Society. Reading will be followed by discussion with the Director, David Christopher and cast.