Meryl Streep has long been a treasured gay icon. She is indeed one of the pillars of this community, someone who—along with Patti LuPone, Lady Gaga, and Donna Summer—has been carrying us aloft for decades with her superior wit, acting skills, and general divaliciousness.
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But long before Big Little Lies, The Devil Wears Prada and Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again, Streep was lighting up Central Park with her take on a Shakespearean classic. Her Shakespeare in the Park performance was thankfully caught (partly) on tape shows a young Streep sparring with an also very young, also very hot Raul Julia in Taming of the Shrew, and the chemistry is off the charts. Bisexuals, beware! This is powerful stuff. But Shakespeare—himself a bisexual—absolutely knew that writing this play was going to cause a bisexual frenzy at some point in the 1970s.
As you can see, Streep and Julia are at their best in what seems like an extremely fun production of an extremely annoying play. This is also the production from which we get this fantastic shot of Streep rocking a baseball cap backstage.
Meryl Streep rehearsing for ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ wearing an Elizabethan gown and a baseball cap (1978)
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To be a fly on the wall in that dressing room…
