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Chauncey and Ned are both in an automat in Greenwich Village. Ned has no money and is hungry, Chauncey gives Ned half of his ham sandwich and begins to pry into Ned’s life. Chauncey wonders why Ned has chosen to come into this particular automat. Ned is a little apprehensive, but Chauncey is smooth and comforting. Chauncey is completely at home in the automat, which is a safe space for gay men to seek out other queer folk for sexual encounters. This is the first time Ned and Chauncey meet and
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START: Chauncey: I daresay the finest dish here at the automat is the tomato soup. People come from miles around for it. Chauncey: Where are you staying while you’re in town? Ned: Up on, uhm, Riverside Drive, they call it. Chauncey: Well. Riverside Drive. And here we are in Greenwich Village. That’s quite a trip for a young, hungry boy. A bus and an El train at least.
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END: Chauncey: And somehow, no. No, the third thing I am interested in is finding the places, in whatever city I am currently in, where the boys meet the boys (significant pause). Of which this automat is one. And that, dare I say, has even been heard of as high up as Riverside Drive.
Citation: Douglas Carter Beane, The Nance, Dramatist Play Service, 2016, pp.10-11.
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