Comedian, podst host and actor Margaret Cho talks polyamory, pansexualy and her parents' gay bookstore durg LGBTQ Pri month June 2021.
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- 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’
MARGARET CHO TALKS POLYAMORY, PANSEXUALY AND HER PARENTS' GAY BOOKSTORE
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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. 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.
IS MARGARET CHO GAY? THE COMEDIAN INTIFI AS BISEXUAL THOUGH SHE BELIEV PANSEXUALY AS WELL
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”Cho said she also wants the LGBTQ muny to reclaim a ntroversial term ed to refer to gay people: "u. " 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.
MARGARET CHO ON WHY THE SUPREME COURT POTENTIALLY OVERTURNG GAY MARRIAGE IS ‘TERRIFYG’
"Ined, Cho's lbian character Er is the doyenne of queers the film that stars Booster as Noah, a handsome young gay man who dons his Pri and Prejudice Elizabeth Ben persona and sil his Fire Island hook-up plans until he helps his iend Howie (Bowen Yang) get laid.
The edian grew up San Francis where her parents owned a gay bookstore, but as a groundbreaker her muni, she's aware of the role that chosen or logil fay holds for a lot of young queer Asian folks. "In terms of growg up and when your fay rejects your homosexualy, you turn to curatg your own fay. Yet, Asian culture oftentim is pretty much the most patriarchal and the most homophobic, " Cho says.
"On s surface, Fire Island is rife wh r sex jok, stunng vistas of that Bacchanalian strip of beach and bars, and pretty men, but also go ep to important them of anti-Asian sentiment, class stggle, queer hierarchi, and body-shamg among gay men. But then there's a lot of important hard-htg tth about class, and race, and all of the difficulti that e wh beg a young gay man of lor, and pecially New York. 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.