Get well soon, Ate Gay.
Contents:
- JERROD CARMICHAEL OUT AS GAY HIS NEW EDY SPECIAL
- BANAT NI JOEY SA MENT NI KABAYAN NOLI TUNGKOL SA KASAL NA MAE AT ARJO: ‘SA MGA UMEEPAL…NNANG NAGPLANO SA MENGGAY KA KAY EGAY!’
- IN JAPAN, A J-POP STAR HAS E OUT AS GAY AND HIS FANS CHEER
- GAY COMEDIANS FOR YOUR NEXT EVENT
JERROD CARMICHAEL OUT AS GAY HIS NEW EDY SPECIAL
For years, gay male performers were left out of the edy landspe or tokenized wh . Now, a new wave of entertaers are succeedg by playg to themselv. * sa gay comedian *
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. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTFor years, gay male performers were left out of the edy landspe or tokenized wh . “I remember Googlg gay ics and nothg g up, pecially gay Black ics, ” says Perks, whose blazgly funny stand-up work rang om sweet to goofy to rnchy.
BANAT NI JOEY SA MENT NI KABAYAN NOLI TUNGKOL SA KASAL NA MAE AT ARJO: ‘SA MGA UMEEPAL…NNANG NAGPLANO SA MENGGAY KA KAY EGAY!’
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’”Even as a kid, Perks uld vaguely perceive that gay entertaers were, certa other realms of pop culture, “havg a moment.
IN JAPAN, A J-POP STAR HAS E OUT AS GAY AND HIS FANS CHEER
"Don't mistake my beg gay as weak bee I grew up southeast D.C. and I will kick some ass," the edian tells The Advote of the attack. * sa gay comedian *
Havg a moment, the late ’90s and early ghts, meant that, sudnly, a gay performer or character would appear a space that had been prevly domated by straight people — say, at the center of a TV s like “Will & Grace” or a stand-up special, or as the voice of reason to the leadg lady a romantic edy like “My Bt Friend’s Weddg” — and everyone uld appld and say, “We solved !
” It was a pop-cultural phenomenon that started to surface when Perks, who’s 31, and other gay edians of his generatn were middle school. Instead, emergg gay edians n enter a large, plited and thrivg queer universe. Gay edy isn’t niche ’s all changed so fast that at one pot, while he’s discsg a sketch about rporate sponsorship of gay pri paras that he did wh Lil Nas X last May, Yang, 31, tch himself and says, lghg, “Why am I talkg about this the past tense, like ’s another era?
(The podst format, which gay obssns n be discsed and nstcted at length, or which the hetero world n be filtered through gay sensibili, as is on Sam Taggart and Gee Civeris’s “StraightLab, ” has bee fertile turf for emergg edy stars. ” says Rogers, who, like all of his lleagu, has many ncurrent projects; he spent an early month of the panmic hostg (hilarly) a pet-groomg realy show lled “Hte Dog” for HBO Max; he -created a short-form seri lled “Gayme Show” (“for Quibi, rt peace”), whose wrg room was “entirely stocked wh queer people”; and he will have a regular role on a new Showtime edy lled “I Love That for You, ” tentatively schled for this sprg, wh the “S.
GAY COMEDIANS FOR YOUR NEXT EVENT
” Lyn’s style of humor — bchy, suatg, spiked wh alhol, rancid wh self-mockery — was rarely overtly queer; was what would now be scribed as “queer-d” — other words, legibly gay to anybody, gay or straight, who knew what signifiers to look for but to the obliv, merely droll.