IJMC - The Queer Review

I'd say that tonight's post shows that you don't have to be gay or 
lesbian to enjoy their humor. That goes for most groups though, you don't 
necessarily have to be one of them to laugh with them. Read on and enjoy, 
since tonight's post is dedicated to my father.                     -dave







From Sunday's New York Times:


Los Angeles-based Robin Tyler, an openly lesbian comic since the 1970s:

If homosexuality is a disease, let's all call in queer to work. "Hello,
can't work today. Still queer."


Bob Smith, who recently appeared on "The Tonight Show":

My Aunt Lorraine said, "Bob, you're gay. Are you seeing a psychiatrist?"
I said, "No. I'm seeing a lieutenant in the Navy."


Michael Dane, a comic from Los Angeles:

I don't even consider myself bisexual. Frankly, I just think of myself
as a "people person."

Labels can also be misleading. I saw a news report about a lesbian
protest march, and the reporter said, "Coming up next, a lesbian
demonstration." My first thought was, "Cool. I always wondered how those
things work."

I know that some lesbians are getting pregnant by going to sperm banks.
I couldn't do that. I'm exactly like my grandmother. "What? Everything's
frozen?! Nothing's fresh?!"


New York-based Danny McWilliams, raised a Catholic in Queens:

A nun told me I was going to receive my Confirmation, so I must choose a
Confirmation name, and it must be the name of a saint. So I chose Eva
Marie.


Karen Ripley, a Berkeley, Calif.-based comic:

I came out to a straight friend and told her that I'm a lesbian. The
first thing she said to me was: "Really? Do you know Jill McGee? She's a
lesbian in Philadelphia!"

Pardon me for laughing, but straight people are so funny! They think we
all know each other! Actually, I do know her. But, hey, it's just a
coincidence!


E.L. Greggory, a lesbian based in Los Angeles:

I do not care whether they allow gays in the military or not, because
the whole idea of the military strikes me as completely absurd. I do not
understand the desire to pick up a gun and go off and shoot strangers
when there are so many loved ones I'd like to take a shot at first. I'd
have to reload several times to get every one on my particular hit list
of love.


Marilyn Pittman, a San Francisco comedian:

Yes, I was a teen-age lesbian. And while that may sound like a horror
movie to some of you, for me I could subtitle that period of my life,
"Adventures in Paradise," because there was one thing that we gay
teen-agers could do that our straight friends couldn't. I could say,
"Hey, Mom, Michelle's comin' over to spend the night Friday night, OK?"
"OK, Honey!"


Sabrina Matthews, who works the comedy-club circuit in San Francisco and
elsewhere:

I do a lot of traveling as a comic. I've traveled through the Bible
Belt. "Belt" is too narrow a word, I think. It should be "Bible
Cummerbund." Or maybe "Bible Body Cast." . . .

Billy Graham has described heaven as a family reunion that never ends.
What must hell possibly be like? Home videos of the same reunion? . . .