Margaret Cho talks exclusively with O&AN
by Hollis Hollywood
Aug 31, 2012http://www.outandaboutnewspaper.com/article/5529#.UEI_ptZlSWE
Cho spoke with Out & About Newspaper why the surrogate families created throughout the queer community are essential to loving one another.
"It's really beautiful and it's really important," Cho said. "I think one of the most incredible things about our community is that we find ways to parent; and there are different definitions of parenting and parents. It's one of the things my show is about: how we create our own families and how great that is. It is a beautiful thing to mother the world."
n response to a world where many young GLBT people are excluded or disowned from their biological families because of their sexuality and forced out of their homes, Cho reflects upon how surrogate families come together to help people find and share the love they may have otherwise been missing. She identifies with the transgender and drag communities and experiences her own role as a mother to others within those particular cultures.
"Of course there have always been those roles in the trans and drag communities," she said. "Where you have older people who adopt younger people. That's a big tradition in both communities and I find that's what [kind of mother] I have become."
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Emmy-nominated comedienne Margaret Cho is launching her new queer-themed stand-up tour "Mother" this fall. -Madeline
