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Contents:

• JERROD CARMICHAEL OUT AS GAY HIS NEW EDY SPECIAL
• 7 HILAR GAY COMEDIANS WHO SLAY EVERY PERFORMANCE
• EXCLIVE INTERVIEW: NETFLIX IS A JOKE STAND-UP STAR MATTEO LANE “I’M JT TALKG ABOUT WHAT I LIKE & IF HAPPENS TO BE SUPER GAY, GOOD!”

JERROD CARMICHAEL OUT AS GAY HIS NEW EDY SPECIAL

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. Yang beme the first Che-Amerin and third openly gay st member on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" edian, who hosts a pop culture podst lled "Las Culturistas, " has proven his range on the "SNL, " masterfully portrayg characters om a Che tra reprentative ed as "Tra Daddy" to former Democratic printial ndidate Andrew Yang.

Amstell, who beme known for appearanc on "Pop World" and "Never Md The Buzzcks, " stand-up edy as a nfsnal, workg through issu like his parents' divorce, eatg meat, and timacy the Brish ic speaks openly about his sexualy durg sets, Amstell said he was "terrified" of beg gay before g out durg his Netflix special "Set Free. Cho, who grew up San Francis and had parents that owned a gay bookstore, has squashed the stereotypil tras placed on Asian-Amerin gaed populary by wrg and starrg a s lled "All Amerin Girl" and has bee a celebrated stand-up ic.

7 HILAR GAY COMEDIANS WHO SLAY EVERY PERFORMANCE

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?

A edy variety special featurg LGBTQ+ edy ins and emergg productn, box office & pany Vios1PhotosMore like thisReview EmbarrassgAs gay man i am embarrassed by this, this is an horrible reprentatn of muny! Gay people are ol and fun and who ever picked this bunch of unknowns did a horrible job.

Stop forcg holywood gay and give chance to real funny and relatable gays. “We all know how backward and dangero the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ laws are. LGBTQ+ edians, like other edians om certa groups, n have their work boiled down to “gay jok” or “trans jok, ” but their sets n be and are more topilly diverse, a realy the Stand Out special reflects.

EXCLIVE INTERVIEW: NETFLIX IS A JOKE STAND-UP STAR MATTEO LANE “I’M JT TALKG ABOUT WHAT I LIKE & IF HAPPENS TO BE SUPER GAY, GOOD!”

I always assumed the dience would be predomantly gay or queer bee ’s all of our edy hero on the same stage and that’s never happened and edy really is such a big part of our muny. It wasn’t all gay men.

I had a long talk wh Judy Gold, not very recently, about how the early ’00s and the ’90s when you got on stage, you had to figure out when you were gog to e out and say you were a lbian, gay, queer, bi or trans. In the ’80s durg the AIDS crisis and the opprsn of Reaganism, beg an out gay male edian was like beg a unirn. That’s why when you thk of that generatn of gay male headlers, ’s very hard to thk of too many.

The straight, old, whe men who still sist their racist, misogynistic, homophobic jok are funny have been replaced by young and diverse edians sharg their experienc wh dienc across the globe. It’s not easy beg gay Mexi, but Manu mak look good. She pok fun at her fame, talks about beg gay, and y, do a ltle dancg.