Contents:
- JERROD CARMICHAEL OUT AS GAY HIS NEW EDY SPECIAL
- STAND OUT: AN LGBTQ+ CELEBRATN REVIEW – A SUPER GAY NIGHT OF EDY
JERROD CARMICHAEL OUT AS GAY HIS NEW EDY SPECIAL
“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.
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.
STAND OUT: AN LGBTQ+ CELEBRATN REVIEW – A SUPER GAY NIGHT OF EDY
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.