Every Act of Life (2018) on Netflix

Plot summary

Terrence McNally grew up in southern Texas as the son of an alcoholic beer distributor and graduated from Columbia University in 1960. He worked as a tutor to the children of John Steinbeck while traveling the world. A Broadway flop followed when he was twenty-four. He went on to write plays and musicals about sexuality, homophobia and faith, among them Master Class, Ragtime and Corpus Christi, which faced violent protests, and he campaigned for LGBTQ rights.