Margaret Cho

Today I was in Tulsa, and I stopped into best buy; I went and looked at the movies, and I was about to buy season one of “Strangers with Candy”, but then I remembered that I was wanting to buy one of Margaret Cho’s Stand-Up DVDs. So I looked around and to my surprise they actually had it (I looked for them online a couple days ago and they said that the local store didn’t have them in). There was Revolution and the 3 pack (I’m the One that I want, Notorious C.H.O, and Revolution), so I, of course, picked up the 3 pack. My mom was with me (She actually gave me some money so I didn’t have to settle for just the one DVD), and I wonder how far her knowledge of gay icons goes? I don’t think that she knows, but if she watched the first couple min’s of “I’m The One That I Want” she could figure it out.

I just finished watching all 3 of them, and I was impressed to say the least, Especially Revolution’s end. She is a very impressive woman, and I wish her all good luck, not that she is going to need it. Before I started watching them I had an idea what it would be like, just jokes after jokes and then the end; I was wrong. In between sets of jokes, she would talk about issues, like homophobia and issues over self-image; it was truly a positive experience. I hope one day I can see her live.

"Don’t ask. Don’t tell. How dare they? How dare they ask you to die for your country, but not allow you to be who you are?

Like you could win a war with out lesbians. Who’s going to read the map?"
~ Margaret Cho


"Silence = Non-existence
If I don’t give too much information – If I don’t go there, it’s like I was never there in the first place"
~ Margaret Cho

"I’m hurt all over for this awful war, but I am hurt because someone just got called a fag or a dyke or a pansy or a sissy or a bull dyke or a chic or a nigger or a kike or a wet back or an injun, or a jap or a bitch or a whore or a cunt.

Unless to you that’s a term of endearment… in the right context it is...

That person is being attacked for who they are, and I don’t accept that. So if racial minorities, sexual minorities, feminist both male and female – hell all liberals got together and had this big “too much information”, “go there” voice. If we just went and did it, that would equal power; and that power would equal change; and that change would equal a revolution..."
~ Margaret Cho

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[From Margaret Cho's Web Site]
Gay Marriage

Gay culture seems to be ever present these days. There are a myriad of television shows: Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Boy Meets Boy, Will and Grace, Queer as Folk. Madonna and Britney practice a little lesbian action on the VMAs. Interior designers are the new rock stars, and gay is the new straight. But there is a co-opting of the culture here, as the mainstream society robs the jewels of queer community, like better window treatments and the importance of a multi-step skincare regimen, but there is still an egregious lack of equality. It seems like gays and lesbians can do all the things that straight people can do, society is saying "You are ok just as you are, just don't try to get married or anything!" It's like when whites stole rock and roll from blacks in the 50's and the kids were all dancing to Little Richard. We love your music, but please don't use that drinking fountain.

You can go to Las Vegas, get married by an Elvis impersonator, in a drive thru, and be driven in a hearse to have a reception in a graveyard. But you have to be straight in order to do so. That is why I don't buy the argument that marriage is a sacred act between a man and a woman. Sacred? Carmen Electra and Dennis Rodman got married. Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley. Liza Minelli and David Gest. Liza Minelli and Peter Allen. Actually, Liza seems to be marrying all the gays.

The disparity of rights between heterosexual married couples and domestic 'partners' is no small number. 1049 federal rights are denied gay and lesbian couples because of their second class status in the area of holy matrimony. These range from the outrageous, like limitations in adopting children, even the tragedy of orphaned children being taken from foster care because the parents were gay, to the idiotic, like no family discounts for gays in national parks. They don't care how many times you play "We are Family" by Sister Sledge. You are still paying full price.

Yet at the same time, gays and lesbians are required to pay the same taxes as every other citizen. There is not any type of compensation given, for the lack of freedoms that keep the queer community at a loss. If the amendment banning gay marriage is actually passed, then it would be the first time that the constitution would be amended specifically to deny the rights of a specific minority, which frankly is downright unconstitutional. The argument is ludicrous. Same sex couples should have the ability to get married by Elvis, just like everyone else.