Gay edian Atralia: 9 Celebri

Contents:

• GAY EDIAN ATRALIA: 9 CELEBRI
• ATRALIAN COMEDIAN STEVE HUGH ON WHY "GAY IS THE NEW STRAIGHT"
• WHERE ARE ALL THE GAY CHARACTERS ON ASIE TV? IS TE ‘GAY DON’T RATE’? FOUR SIRS WEIGH

GAY EDIAN ATRALIA: 9 CELEBRI

DID YOU KNOW: In gay slang a feme top is lled a "bloe". Also extremely gay.

ATRALIAN COMEDIAN STEVE HUGH ON WHY "GAY IS THE NEW STRAIGHT"

2009: have to make k for gay weddgs.

WHERE ARE ALL THE GAY CHARACTERS ON ASIE TV? IS TE ‘GAY DON’T RATE’? FOUR SIRS WEIGH

In a time when hard-won LGBTIQ+ rights are slippg backwards around the world and wh plenty of natns yet to enjoy the level of eedom we have Atralia, sometim you need a b of light relief, or at least a razor sharp ic put downs of homophobic idcy. Amos me out as part of his 2006 Edburgh Ftival Frge show, gog on to ont Batty Man, a Channel 4 documentary about homophobia black culture.

Although reluctant to be pigeonholed as the “black gay ic, ” he has spoken about his joy at young queer folks g up to him and sharg their stori after a gig. There’s a strange charm to his credibly un-PC rantgs that will have you nfed the most hilar way, as Coombs Marr smash genr and sexualy stereotyp wh gay abandon. 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.