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Contents:

• WELE TO THE ‘GAY SHAME PARA’: AN HTX QUEER COMEDY SHOW
• WILL YOUNG: MY STORY OF HOW I OVERME GAY SHAME AND FOUND MY PEACE
• GAY SHAME WH SHERIA MATTIS, ELY KREIMENDAHL AND AMANDA SEYIED
• MALAYSIA CUTS SHORT MIC FT AFTER BRISH BAND SLAMS ANTI-GAY LAWS, SGER KISS MALE BANDMATE
• LIVG AUTHENTILLY THE LGBTQ COMMUNY: HOW TO MOVE PAST “GAY SHAME” [VIO]
• MALAYSIA FTIVAL NCELLED AFTER MATTY HEALY SLAMS ANTI-GAY LAWS AND KISS BANDMATE
• TEN PK POUNDS FOR A GAY-BASHG

WELE TO THE ‘GAY SHAME PARA’: AN HTX QUEER COMEDY SHOW

Wele to the Gay Shame Para, a Hoton-based bi-weekly edy show hosted by queer edians, open to all who dare to attend. Wele to the Gay Shame Para, a Hoton-based bi-weekly edy show hosted by queer edians, open to all who dare to attend—nothg is off lims durg this night of edy, om jok about gay gossip queens to the rise of robotic sex dolls. Hosted at The Secret Group, the East Downtown performance venue and bar notor for s edy shows and ocsnal emo dance parti, the Gay Shame Para v edians om across the spectm—and the natn—to be their most thentic selv any hysteril, rnchy, or queer way they please.

WILL YOUNG: MY STORY OF HOW I OVERME GAY SHAME AND FOUND MY PEACE

“Jamal and Drew both started about two years ago and there weren’t really a lot of gay people dog stand up when I started, so we were jt drawn to each other, ” Morrissey says.

“I thk people who aren’t gay n relate to the same kds of fights that my ex and I would have.

I don’t thk gay jok are that much different than straight jok. ” -Gay Shame Para host Bob Morrissey. Sce startg the show late last year, the Gay Shame Para, which rived s name om the annual worldwi radil Gay Pri event, has gaed a loyal followg, wh more atten g every week.

GAY SHAME WH SHERIA MATTIS, ELY KREIMENDAHL AND AMANDA SEYIED

When to the craft, none of the Gay Shame Para edians are aimg to be sensive or morally admirable wh their jok; stead, they e the stage to vent about their daily tratns a hilar manner wh no punch pulled. Charmg edian and bisexual -host Jamal Rahal kept the room howlg as he scribed his experience of brgg a female date around his gay iends, imatg their judgmental reactns, then tacklg the pure nfn om his straight iends who labeled him gay. Although the hosts are queer, Gay Shame Para don’t ny straight ally edians om performg—as the show’s tagle reads: “Stand up om gays, probable gays, and people we wish were gay.

MALAYSIA CUTS SHORT MIC FT AFTER BRISH BAND SLAMS ANTI-GAY LAWS, SGER KISS MALE BANDMATE

” Morrissey explas that the show would have ls longevy if only LGBTQ edians were allowed to perform, nsirg the small prence of gay edians the cy. Morrissey adds that, his opn, the te value of beg a gay edian is the abily to relate to all people.

“Jt bee I’m talkg about a gay relatnship, I’m not only talkg about gay people, ” he says.

I thk people who aren’t gay n relate to the same kd of fights that my ex and I would have. At the end of the day, the Gay Shame Para aims to create a space where edians n fortably hone their craft while beg hont about their daily liv. Wh plans to expand the show beyond Hoton and Texas, to ve more edians, and to create merchandise for the cult followg, Gay Shame Para has only jt dipped s to to the waters of buildg a ee, queer, rnchy experience.

LIVG AUTHENTILLY THE LGBTQ COMMUNY: HOW TO MOVE PAST “GAY SHAME” [VIO]

“I thk I would jt be a lot creepier if I weren’t talkg about beg gay, the kd of stori I tell, ” Morrissey lghs. For more on the Gay Shame Para, vis. They are unlikely to say that his story has been one of gay shame that has blighted his life.

MALAYSIA FTIVAL NCELLED AFTER MATTY HEALY SLAMS ANTI-GAY LAWS AND KISS BANDMATE

And yet, says the 42-year-old mician, whose new book To Be a Gay Man, has jt e out paperback, “gay shame was a part of my life om the age of six.

TEN PK POUNDS FOR A GAY-BASHG

But then when I did the Homo Sapiens LGBT podst, a lot of people were talkg about the topic of gay shame.