Is Margaret Cho Gay? The Comedian Intifi as Bisexual Though She Believ Pansexualy as Well

Contents:

• MARGARET CHO TALKS POLYAMORY, PANSEXUALY AND HER PARENTS' GAY BOOKSTORE
• IS MARGARET CHO GAY? THE COMEDIAN INTIFI AS BISEXUAL THOUGH SHE BELIEV PANSEXUALY AS WELL
• MARGARET CHO ON WHY THE SUPREME COURT POTENTIALLY OVERTURNG GAY MARRIAGE IS ‘TERRIFYG’
• FIRE ISLAND'S MARGARET CHO ON WHY, BOTH POLICS AND POP CULTURE, "GAY IS HERE TO STAY"
• MARGARET CHO CALLS EXPECTED REVERSAL OF ROE V. WA AND THREATS TO GAY MARRIAGE “DISGTG”
• MARGARET CHO TALKS POLYAMORY, PANSEXUALY AND HER PARENTS' GAY BOOKSTORE

MARGARET CHO TALKS POLYAMORY, PANSEXUALY AND HER PARENTS' GAY BOOKSTORE

Katty Huertas / TODAY / Getty ImagJune 1, 2021, 11:35 AM UTC / Source: TODAYWhen Margaret Cho and I sat down for our terview last month for two articl, one cidg wh Asian Pacific Amerin Herage Month and another for LGBTQ Pri Month this June, I was surprised to learn of a fascatg bullet pot her life edian, actor and podst host has been surround by queerns sce she was a young 1978, Cho’s parents, Young-Hie and Sng-Hoon Cho, bought a bookstore lled Paperbook Traffic San Francis’s gay neighborhood, the Castro District.

Cho likens her experience to the one featured the Ryan Murphy documentary “Circ of Books, ” which prented the story of a Los Angel gay bookstore that was owned by a straight, Jewish uple. “We had rollg racks of gay romance novels like ‘Cobalt’ and we had ‘Honcho’ and ‘Blue Boy’ and ‘Dmmer Magaze’ the magaze stands. My parents had a gay bookstore and he was one of the people who did book signgs there.

And while her parents were fortable wh the gay culture bee of their work, they still weren’t acceptg when she me out years later as bisexual.

IS MARGARET CHO GAY? THE COMEDIAN INTIFI AS BISEXUAL THOUGH SHE BELIEV PANSEXUALY AS WELL

It sounds very gay chic. "It's very gay om an Asian Amerin perspective, " she said of Yang's work on "Saturday Night Live. That has been silenced, the gay Asian experience really is unheard.

”Cho said she also wants the LGBTQ muny to reclaim a ntroversial term ed to refer to gay people: "u.

MARGARET CHO ON WHY THE SUPREME COURT POTENTIALLY OVERTURNG GAY MARRIAGE IS ‘TERRIFYG’

" Cho stated that havg an open marriage do e wh specific boundari, addg at some pot, she do sire an emotnal monogamist relatnship wh the same openly gay, the edian also has strong views on LGBT rights. " The "Real" hosts also broached a popular topic: Why durg a stand-up stop Atralia April did Cho make ments that outed John Travolata as gay? "Well, 'e I'm gay, " she rpond.

" Back 2011, a blog for HuffPost Gay Voic, Cho explaed why she intifi as "queer.

Memorably, Margaret performed wearg a gay-pri-supportg rabow drs durg a time when the issue of suicis among gay youth was on the rise due to bullyg. “I was very proud to have been able to wear a gay pri drs on a show that is so nservative”. In 2020, Margaret appeared three films – she played a thls Hollywood movie stud exec  Fah Based, “Fairy Gay Mother 1”  Friendsgivg, starrg Kat Denngs and Mal Akerman, and “Auntie Lg”  Netflix’s first major animated film, Over the Moon, which Vulture lled “one of the most geo animated films ever ma.

FIRE ISLAND'S MARGARET CHO ON WHY, BOTH POLICS AND POP CULTURE, "GAY IS HERE TO STAY"

She is credibly active anti-racism, anti-bullyg, and gay rights mpaigns. Margaret has been honored by GLAAD, Amerin Women Rad and Televisn, the Lambda Legal Defense and Edutn Fund, the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force (NGLTF), the Asian Amerin Legal Defense and Edutn Fund (AALDEF), PFLAG and LA Pri, who gave Margaret a Lifetime Achievement Award for leavg a lastg imprt on the LGBT muny. We need to regnize that a ernment that would ny a gay man the right to bridal registry is a fascist state.

And then everybody really lov, like, jt to hear her voice through that, whether that's, like, bee she thks my haircuts: "The haircut very gay. "So, she thks this haircut is the most gay that my hair has been. She explaed to Today  2021 that her parents owned a gay bookstore San Francis when she was growg up, but seems they have stggled wh their dghter's own evolvg sexual inty.

MARGARET CHO CALLS EXPECTED REVERSAL OF ROE V. WA AND THREATS TO GAY MARRIAGE “DISGTG”

" The ncert film premiered select theaters as well as on the gay & lbian premium channel Here! Paired w/ pro Louie Van Amstel, she was on 1 of the show's most ntroversial seasons, dancg alongsi Mike "The Suatn" Sorrento, David Hasselhoff, Jennifer Grey & Bristol Pal among got a very strong reactn to her Rabow Dancg Drs durg a time when the issue of bullyg, pecially among gay teens, was all over the media. She's active anti-racism, anti-bullyg & gay rights mpaign.

Throughout her reer, she has been honored by GLAAD, Amerin Women Rad & Televisn, the Lambda Legal Defense & Edutn Fund, the Natnal Gay & Lbian Task Force (NGLTF), the Asian Amerin Legal Defense & Edutn Fund (AALDEF) & PFLAG for makg a signifint difference promotg equal rights for all, regardls of race, sexual orientatn or genr inty. When Margaret was asked if she was ncerned about gay marriage beg overturned if the Supreme Court overturned Roe V Wa, she had a visceral reactn. Wh her starrg role Joel Kim Booster’s gay rom- Fire Island, Margaret Cho fally has a project that reflects the kd of clive sexualy she’s advoted for throughout her reer.

MARGARET CHO TALKS POLYAMORY, PANSEXUALY AND HER PARENTS' GAY BOOKSTORE

In the film, which buts June 3 on Hulu, Cho plays Er, mother hen to a gaggle of gays payg their annual vis to her A. ” “Our Gay Pla. ” [Lghg] Very David Attenborough: “The gay Asians go to Fire Island.

Of urse, then you have the view of straight people lookg through the gay lens, or thgs like whatever is all of Ryan Murphy’s work. I thk my favore gay films are probably often actually through the straight lens, which is, you know, [The Adventur of Priscilla, Queen of the Dert] or somethg like Call Me By Your Name. The are all through the straight lens so ’s hard to know, “Is that a gay film?

So fally, we get the gay Do you have a favore rom-? It’s about race and class wh gay life.