Everybody on Stage for the Hawaiian Number

by Bryan Murphy

Over the years, many things have been written about him. The scandals, love affairs, the lies, the backstage feuds.

Stories from social media, TMZ, Der Spiegel, Le Monde, The Sun, Page 6, National Enquirer, et. al.

Here, star of stage, screen, and roadside café, BRYAN MURPHY, the boy from Brooklyn, finally sets the record straight. In his own words.

Kindle Edition

Published October 1, 2021

Reviews

[Meg · Rating 5 out of 5]

I met Bryan when I, a straight woman, accidentally crashed an LGBTQ+ happy hour on a cruise and he introduced himself as “Bryan with a Y” which made him immediately memorable. Also part of the group were his friends from England, Stuart and Furdoon, who are mentioned in his book. They and the entire group were the most welcoming, entertaining, funny and kind people that you could ever meet and I immediately asked if I could join them again the next night. So started my week long association with Bryan. Each night, we’d talk and he’d regale me with his stories, including his career as a drag queen, his attendance at Stonewall, his love of travel, especially cruising and his favorite ports, his love of reading, and his heartbreak over the death of his husband, Roger. By the second night I knew that he was the most fascinating person that I had ever met. We talked about what books we were reading, he was reading Prince Harry’s Spare and I turned him onto Colson Whitehead’s The Nickle Boys which he told me that he ordered when he went back to him cabin. He also told me that he wrote his own book during COVID, which I knew that I had to buy and, encouraged by me and others from the group, he did a reading from his book at one of our last happy hours, reading the passage about his six degrees of separation from Emmett Till. He also teased me each time I referred to the cruise as a “boat” rather than a “ship,” a good natured ribbing that he was more than qualified to dish out given his multiple thousands of days spent cruising. His book sounds exactly like him and is infused with the same warmth and mischievousness that he exudes when you are in his presence. Reading his book has made me even more certain that he is the most fascinating person I have ever met and I highly recommend it to others.