This article will discuss Tony Kushner's Angels in America - A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, published in 1992. The piece provides insight into what it meant to be a gay American in the United States -United. late 20th century showing accurate depictions of social, medical, religious and political life. The importance of this play cannot be overlooked since even a decade after its premiere, the play was considered "one of the most important plays of the late 20th century" (Odenwald). One question remains: is the play still relevant today? Using a post-structuralist approach, this article attempts a queer theoretical deconstruction of the text in search of contradictions and how it reinforces the underlying conflict motif. Considering the fact that the current political and social climate is very similar to that discussed in the piece, it is worth trying to find out if this piece is indeed still relevant today. In doing so, we will examine issues of illness, sexuality, binary systems, and conflict, attempting to show how a play that is about queerness fails to actually be a play about queerness. In a very particular way, the play operates on the basis of the self versus the other paradigm. This paradigm shows how the New York world takes shape in a heteronormative way. If everything has a place, an order, a specific way of functioning, then the play would be the villain destroying the context and trying to recreate something new, without bias or prejudice. The question of the border, more precisely the social border, arises from the need to understand (outside the play) the plurality and versatility that an actor must have. While social boundaries were created in order to discourage people from crossing paths or mixing gender roles and... middle of paper ...... don't work. In other words, the millennium is coming, but what is it for? Works Cited Barry, Peter. Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2009. Print. Fausto-Sterling, Anne (March/April 1993). “The five sexes: why men and women are not enough”. Science: 20-24. Kusher, Tony. Angels in America: Parts 1 and 2, Nick Hern Books, London, 2007Odenwald, Dan. “Soaring angels.” : Angels in America on HBO: TV Section: Metro Weekly. Gay & Lesbian News Magazine from Washington, DC, December 4, 2003. Web. January 20, 2014. Theberge, Nancy. "'It's part of the game': physicality and ender production in women's hockey." In The Gendered Society Reader, edited by Michael S. Kimmel, Amy Aronson and Amy Kaler, 73-80 Toronto, ON: Oxford University Press., 2011.