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. 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 acclaimed edian out as gay his new HBO special, “Rothaniel, ” a few years after he first referenced relatnships wh men a prev film for HBO.
STAND OUT: AN LGBTQ+ CELEBRATN REVIEW – A SUPER GAY NIGHT OF EDY
The straight, old, whe men who still sist their racist, misogynistic, homophobic jok are funny have been replaced by young and diverse edians sharg their experienc wh dienc across the globe.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.
And ’s a night that promis to be a historic night of lghter and queer joy a “super gay night of edy. But he still keeps real by mentg on the “Don’t Say Gay” laws and how Gay and Transgenr people are unr legislative attack Ameri. -based LGBTQ+ edians — Tuday Thomas, who is trans, Deven Bouchet, who is lbian, and Billy McCartney, who is gay — to get their take on whether Chappelle was punchg down or if his jok about their muny need some punchg up.
And I jt got real tough sk when to ics and them sayg thgs and I’m not easily offend — that’s g om a person who has been gay-bashed on more than one ocsn. It’s not like he’s out there physilly beatg up on gay people.