Minneapolis-St. Paul’s Outward Spiral Theater Company is Minnesota’s “longest-lived theater company dedicated to telling the stories of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender America.” But the company has suspended operations. What’s led to the crisis? “The very idea of gay theater has become – if you’ll pardon the expression – kind of a queer one”, writes Dominic Papatola. Why? Because niche theatre like this has been absorbed into the mainstream. Perhaps there is no longer a place for theatre with an issue-based focus…