Pride Month is the perfect time to spotlight stories that reflect the richness and diversity of the LGBTQ+ experience—and at Blue Dasher Press, we’re proud to share a vibrant collection of plays that center gay, lesbian, and bisexual characters. Whether you're seeking a poignant 15-minute piece or a full-length production that celebrates love, identity, and resilience, this curated list offers something meaningful for every stage and every audience. Each script is available as a printable PDF in our digital store, and best of all, every play can be produced royalty-free. Because at Blue Dasher Press, we believe theatre should be bold, inclusive, and accessible to all.
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BABY IN THE BASEMENT
Story: In this gritty and urban drama, two homeless teenagers meet while seeking refuge in the basement of an abandoned building. What begins as a friendship sadly evolves into a mutual suicide pact.
Highlight: Official selection for the NYC 15-Minute Play Festival.
Highlight: Adapted into an award-winning short film.
Length: 15 Minutes
Cast: 1f, 1m; both characters are teenagers
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language; contains content related to sexual assault; contains content related to suicide
BETTER PLACES TO GO
Story: A horrendous storm looms overs a rundown truck stop diner in Grand Island, Nebraska, bringing together ten people who start to reveal damaging secrets as the night goes on.
Highlight: The Sacramento Area Regional Theatre Alliance awarded the world premiere with two awards: Best Original Script and Best Original Production.
Length: Full Length (90 minutes)
Cast: 7f, 3m
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language; depiction of violence on stage; suicide
BOXCAR
Story: Unable to attend their high school dance together, Austin and Harley decide to skip Homecoming and seek refuge in an abandoned boxcar. There, they dream of escaping the ultra conservative small town they live in, hoping to discover a place where they can exist and love without fear.
Highlight: Adapted into the award-winning Dutch film Wagon.
Length: 10 Minutes
Cast: 2m; both characters are teenagers
Audience: Contains adult subject matter
CRUMBLE
Story: As the end of the world draws near, two men who were once in love reunite after a decade apart to spend the last night together.
Length: 10 Minutes
Cast: 2m; both characters are in their 40's
Audience: Contains adult subject matter
DEFENSELESS
Story: After their relationship is discovered by their classmates at school, Alberto and Justin are being separated by their parents and the school’s administration. In the morning, Alberto is being sent to a military school in Utah. Realizing the chance to say good bye is now, they meet in the night.
Length: 10 Minutes
Cast: 2m; both characters are teenagers
Audience: Contains adult subject matter
FRACTURED
Story: In 1965, a young college student named Anthony befriends a classmate out of sympathy because she's struggling to fit in at their school. In an attempt to deny his homosexuality, Anthony spends a night with Wendy, causing her to become frighteningly obsessed with him. After Anthony reveals to Wendy that he's transferring to another school in the morning, Wendy reaches her breaking point.
Highlight: Featured in The Best Women's Stage Monologues
Length: 15 Minutes
Cast: 1f, 1m; both characters are in their late teens to early 20's
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language; contains content related to suicide
FROZEN STARS
Story: This Latin-flavored coming-of-age stage drama explores the lives of several young people as they struggle with personal and religious beliefs, peer pressure, family relationships, and the overwhelming power of love and friendship.
Highlight: Featured in The Best Women's Stage Monologues
Highlight: Adapted into a feature film
Length: Full Length (90 Minutes)
Cast: 8f, 8m; most of the characters are teenagers
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language; depiction of violence on stage
GROUP PROJECT
Story: Meeting to work on an assigned group project, three college students explore the boundaries and perceptions of labels related to sex when one of the students shares that he identifies as bisexual.
Length: 10 Minutes
Cast: 1f, 2m
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language
HELL WITH THE LID OFF
Story: On the hottest day of the year, five people suffering from different types of addiction each reach their breaking point while attending a healing retreat in the middle of nowhere.
Length: 15 Minutes
Cast: 3f, 3m
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language
JOHNNY RAMIREZ REALLY WANTS TO KISS ME
Story: When star student Johnny Ramirez is selected to be the math tutor for the always-misunderstood Alex Wilde, the two young men discover love for the first time.
Highlight: Official Selection, DC Queer Theatre Festival (Washington, D.C.)
Highlight: Off-Off Broadway Production, Short Play Lab, Roy Arias Studio Theatre
Highlight: Winner, Slam Boston Award, Boston Center for the Arts, Best Stage Play
Highlight: Official Selection, Stage This, Too! (New York City)
Highlight: Official Selection, Queer Shorts, Stage Q (Madison, Wisconsin)
Length: 10 Minutes
Cast: 2m; both characters are teenagers
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language
JUST BEFORE THE DROP
Story: Moments after her husband of 24 years leaps to his death from a 12 story building, a woman comes face-to-face with a man who claims to have been her husband's lover of five years. On the rooftop, sorrow, regret, and anger culminate in a second tragedy in this chilling short play.
Highlight: Official Selection, Short Plays & Contemporary Dance, Firehouse Theatre (Virginia)
Highlight: Featured in 105 Five-Minute Plays for Study and Performance
Highlight: New York Premiere, Short Stories 8: Urban View, Native Aliens Theatre Collective
Highlight: Adapted into an award-winning short film
Length: 10 Minutes
Cast: 1f, 1m
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language
LAST DANCE
Story: While attending their senior prom, Spencer and Camden seek a quiet moment together, away from the crowd and away from their dates. Sitting on a bench outside of the ballroom, the two young men reveal why the night has been such a miserable experience - because they really just want to dance with each other.
Highlight: World Premiere, Spectrum: LGBT New Play Festival, Funky Little Theater Company
Highlight: Featured in The Best 10-Minute Plays
Length: 10 Minutes
Cast: 2m; both characters are teenagers
Audience: Contains adult subject matter
OST UND WEST
Story: Shortly after the start of the Gulf War, a young American traveler is being questioned at an embassy before he’s allowed to board a plane back to the United States because of a brief relationship he had with a man from East Germany.
Length: 10 Minutes
Cast: 2m
Audience: Contains adult subject matter
RELOCATIONS
Story: Inspired by Alix Smith's photograph States of Union #3, this short play is about two women who - as mothers and partners - realize how important geography is in America.
Highlight: World Premiere, Rough Writers Festival, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
Length: 10 Minutes
Cast: 2f; both characters are in their mid to late 30's
Audience: Contains adult subject matter
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SLOE GIN FIZZ
Story: On a rainy night, two male co-workers, Marco and Christopher, are drawn together out of loneliness. Marco is married to a Korean woman whom he does not love. Christopher is suffering from a broken heart after another failed relationship. In the course of one night, the two men emotionally confront the expectations of a new relationship, the pressure of conforming to society, the traditional roles expected of men, and the powerful and consuming feelings of love.
Highlight: Official Selection, Fifth Annual Lavender Footlights Festival (Miami)
Highlight: Featured in The Best Men's Stage Monologues
Highlight: Featured in Audition Arsenal for Men in Their 20s
Length: Full Length (90 Minutes)
Cast: 2m
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language
SYRUP
Story: To bring an end to their longstanding feud, the daughters of two former First Ladies convince their mothers to appear as special guests in a charity fashion show.
Highlight: Featured in The Best Women's Stage Monologues
Length: 10 Minutes
Cast: 5f
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language
THERE IS NO 'D' IN REVENGE
Story: Fed up with the cruel antics of a lip gloss-stealing mean girl named Brenda, fifteen-year-old Jenessa is faced with the opportunity to seek revenge by outing her nemesis to their entire school when she discovers Brenda has carefully hidden the truth that she's a lesbian.
Highlight: Featured in 222 More Comedy Monologues 2 Minutes & Under
Length: 10 Minutes
Cast: 2f; both characters are in high school
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language
TROPHY
Story: Georgina, a self-admitted trophy wife, tries to murder someone’s husband at a dinner party she’s a guest at. With the police on the way, Georgina turns to Toby, a new trophy husband, to help determine her next move.
Highlight: Featured in The Best Men's Stage Monologues
Length: 10 Minutes
Cast: 1f, 1m both characters are in their late 20's
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language
THE TRUANTS
Story: When Marc, Sandi, Ethan, Jana, and Chad decide to cut school and spend the day together hanging out in Marc’s basement, many truths are revealed that threaten to change their friendship forever. Set in Sacramento in 1989, this award-winning dramatic play explores the lives of five young people living on the edge.
Highlight: Winner, Best Stage Script, Script and Storyboard Showcase (Los Angeles)
Highlight: Nominee, Best Stage Play, Woodbury Film Festival (Salt Lake City)
Highlight: Finalist, Storyline, DaVinci International Film Festival (Los Angeles)
Length: Full Length (90 Minutes)
Cast: 2f, 3m; all characters are in high school
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language; contains content related to suicide
TWO OF HEARTS
Story: Deciding to skip gym class together, high school students Donovan and James pass the time by playing a card game but end up revealing their true feelings for each other. Set in 1986, this nostalgic short play and homage to the iconic Stacey Q dance hit explores the complicated feelings connected to discovering your first love.
Length: 10 Minutes
Cast: 2m; both characters are in high school
Audience: Contains adult subject matter
WE NEVER MADE IT TO PARIS
Story: We Never Made it to Paris is a creative fusion of language, music, movement, dance, photography, and light. The story spans over the course of eighteen years in the lives of two men: Eros, a former model, and Bird, a former actor. Fearing real love doesn't exist, Bird sabotages their young affair, only to realize years later they are soul mates.
Highlight: Off-Off Broadway Production, The Producer's Club
Length: Full Length (60 Minutes)
Cast: 2m
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language
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