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ComedienneMargaretCho has been in an unwrap marriage for 10 years, and it's working for her.
"I'm married to a man but I'm bisexual so I like both," Cho told the ladies of "The Real" this week about her decade-long marriage to musician Al Ridenour. "We got together because ... we both have this [idea], 'I just don't want to possess sex with the same person my whole life. That's just gross.'"
She went on to explain how the partnership works, showing that her other is with other women and that she doesn't procure jealous. While she doesn't usually arrive home to discover other women, she said she has been in the house while he was off with someone else.
"We have a really big house," she said. "It's compassionate of like if we wanna include that, it's fancy , 'You can reside on your side or I'll reside on my side.' When I observe her, I'll create her dinner. ... Oh yeah. I've definitely been in the house."
The "Real" hosts also broached a well-liked topic: Why during a stand-up discontinue in Australia in April did Cho make comments that outed John Travolata as gay?
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Margaret Cho is Spectacularly Unfunny (and not for the reasons you'd think I'd have)!
Maybe it was a bad plan for me to go view Margaret Cho this past Saturday in Boston. I’m as unbent and white and Catholic as they come, and I’ve been told by people who trail her closer than I perform that she’s gotten, shall we say, more “polarized” since the last time I saw her about ten years ago. But I figured, “Hey, I’m reasonably open-minded, I can take a bit of flak, and **the Miss ** wants to move, so why not?”
So off we went. Yes, I was in the distinct minority, owing to my straightness if not my whiteness, maleness, or Catholicism. But so what? Wasn’t the first time, won’t be the last, no beer allowed in your seat, keep your feet off the seatbacks in front of you, here we go.
I certainly wasn’t surprised when she came out with ten minutes of “New Pope Bad.” For her audience, His Holiness is a pretty good target for a lot of reasons. And his vestments certainly do look fond a dress, and they’re very ornate, and he does display around with a lot of men, and he does hold a lot of antiques (the Chruch does, but for the purposes of the routine, sure, he does). I wa
Margaret Cho got an especially early commence celebrating Pride.
Thanks to a childhood spent in the middle of San Francisco’s gayest neighborhood -- growing up in her parents' homosexual book store, no less -- the outspoken comedian was partaking in the city’s annual bash recognizing the LGBTQ community before she was even a teen. Now, nearly four decades later, she attends Prides around the planet each year, often serving as grand marshal and “riding in cars driven by old, very butch diesel dyke types who desire to show off their custom cars.”
In honor of Movement Month, HuffPost recently phoned Cho to chat about her earliest Pride memories, why she thinks the controversial corporate takeover of some events might not be such a bad thing and the challenges she continues to encounter as a bisexual.
When and how did you first discover that you were queer? Is there one particular moment or experience that stands out to you?
I think it was something that I just gentle of knew — that there was something different in the sense of not belonging — and not really understanding why. It was this feeling of “I don’t get everything.” And there was this distrust of the other girls around me. They made
Margaret Cho > Quotes
“If you are a woman, if you're a person of colour, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, gender diverse, if you are a person of size, if you are a person od intelligence, if you are a person of integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world.
And it's going to be really strenuous to find messages of self-love and support anywhere. Especially women's and same-sex attracted men's culture. It's all about how you possess to look a certain way or else you're worthless. You know when you look in the mirror and you reflect 'oh, I'm so overweight, I'm so old, I'm so ugly', don't you know, that's not your authentic self? But that is billions upon billions of dollars of advertising, magazines, movies, billboards, all geared to make you feel shitty about yourself so that you will take your hard earned money and spend it at the mall on some turn-around creme that doesn't turn around shit.
When you don't have self-esteem you will hesitate before you do anything in your life. You will hesitate to go for the job you really wanna go for, you will hesitate to question for a raise, you will hesitate to dial yourself an American, you will hesitate to re