Contents:
- “I’M AN AMAZG COMIC WHO HAPPENS TO BE GAY”: MEET COMEDY’S NEW LGBTQ BREAKOUTS
- JEREMY BEILER: GAY EDY WRER ON 'I LOVE THAT FOR YOU'
“I’M AN AMAZG COMIC WHO HAPPENS TO BE GAY”: MEET COMEDY’S NEW LGBTQ BREAKOUTS
Hannah Gadsby, for example, speaks about growg up as a lbian Tasmania, where homosexualy was illegal until 1997.
And Bowen Yang beme the first Asian-Amerin and third openly gay st member on "Saturday Night Live. Risg to fame followg her special "Nate, " Gadsby has phed edy to new levels by weavg together personal stori, art history lsons, and sthg monologu — routely takg hs at men and the chronicl her childhood growg up as a lbian Tasmania, where homosexualy was illegal until 1997.
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JEREMY BEILER: GAY EDY WRER ON 'I LOVE THAT FOR YOU'
Joel Kim Booster often jok about beg raised a homogeno Southern town. He often jok that he knew he was gay before he knew he was 's sce lnched a succsful stand-up reer — appearg on "The Late Late Show Wh Jam Corn, " "Late Night Wh Seth Meyers, " "CONAN, " and more.
Booster ntued, "I'd look at myself and say, 'Why am I treated like a send-class cizen the gay muny? “There was this assumptn that I wasn’t a real stand-up, I had this signifier: You’re a gay stand-up, which means somethg different, somethg ls than, ” says Joel Kim Booster of his early days edy. ” He’s talkg about a time before gay marriage beme the law of the land, before the electn of Donald Tmp generated a reactive new wave of LGBTQ awarens, before the ter nnected diverse groups of fans wh edians relevant to them, and before gay characters started grabbg lead rol stud rom-s.