Wele to The Queer Comedy Club, Where Everybody Knows You're Gay - Paste Magaze

Contents:

• DUMBLEDORE IS SO GAY!
• BARBIE SAID “GAY RIGHTS!” LONG BEFORE MARGOT ROBBIE OR GRETA GERWIG SHOWED UP
• LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
• KEV SPACEY DEFENDS COMG OUT AS GAY AFTER BEG ACCED OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT: ‘I WAS UNR A LOT OF PRSURE’
• WELE TO THE QUEER COMEDY CLUB, WHERE EVERYBODY KNOWS YOU’RE GAY

DUMBLEDORE IS SO GAY!

Why are you tellg me that my dghter is a gay clown? About a year later, “Love, Simon” ma history as Hollywood’s first major stud film to feature a gay teen protagonist and spawned a wonrful spoff show, “Love, Victor.

He add that “much of gay culture revolv around bars, clubs and drag”, while a edy club would provi a different sort of space for the LGBTQ+ muny. His sensibily as a gay artist has shaped and elevated the magaze’s athetic, but he has to keep his creativy check lt Mx be seen as a magaze for gay men.

BARBIE SAID “GAY RIGHTS!” LONG BEFORE MARGOT ROBBIE OR GRETA GERWIG SHOWED UP

But fish strong, as the nflict over Richie’s bathhoe project grows and Mx has to nsir whether ’s too risky for the magaze to speak to gay men, or even gay moments like this, the historil fictn feels not entirely historil. “So much of gay culture revolv around bars, clubs and drag – and we love all that – but ’s important to be able to offer somethg addn, ” said Ian.

Comedians such as Jsi Fostekew (who has wrten for Mock The Week, 8 Out of 10 Cats Do Countdown and The News Quiz), Stephen Bailey (Big Brother’s B on the Si), Jen Iv and Jam Barr (-host of the UK’s #1 LGBTQ+ podst, A Gay and a NonGay) are currently schled to perform at the forthg Thursday night Queer Comedy Club will open Archway, London, on May 11;.

LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE

Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love. There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia.

'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022.

KEV SPACEY DEFENDS COMG OUT AS GAY AFTER BEG ACCED OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT: ‘I WAS UNR A LOT OF PRSURE’

Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife. The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage".

Barbie Said “Gay Rights! "I curse the name of the lord this new Barbie movie that has been released full of transexual, and transgenr, and homosexualy, " the preacher clared.

So many of those “transexual, and transgenr, and homosexualy” “perpetrators” are buyg advance tickets bulk for Barbie! Then there’s the key moment where our two hero waltz across a rabow bridge triumph, which is jt credibly gay.

WELE TO THE QUEER COMEDY CLUB, WHERE EVERYBODY KNOWS YOU’RE GAY

Jt the fact that dienc are never given any specific reason for Liana and Alexa livg the woods all alone together is enough to get the imagatns of the gays workg.

Most importantly, regnizg even the silly ways Barbie and The Diamond Castle n be terpreted a queer fashn jt rerc the ridiculons of plats about “gay propaganda” morn movi like Greta Gerwig’s Barbie. Go back even further time than the homoerotic unrton of The Diamond Castle or the “queer Marxist” readgs of other animated Barbie movi and one will see plenty of ways that the ncept of Barbie dolls has been tertwed wh the LGBTQIA+ muny.

Remember that time Mattel released a Ken doll wh a very gay-iendly accsory? Morn-day folks n pla about all the “transexual, transgenr, and homosexualy” morn pop culture, but gays aren’t gog anywhere, eher discsns about Barbie material or society wr large. Le-ups cludg Rhys Nicholson (Judge Ru Pl's Drag Race Down Unr, Netflix), Js Fostekew, Stephen Bailey, Ella Vaday (Drag Race UK), Sarah Keyworth, Victoria Olsa, Kuan Wen (Comedy wh an Accent), Jam Barr (UK’s No1 LGBTQ+ Podst, A Gay & A Non Gay podst) & Hannah Byczkowski (Wner, BBC Traors).