Comedian Margaret Cho has described her Mother tour as
being about “the gay man's need for a mother figure.”
Cho returns to Las Vegas to perform her show at the Mirage on
Friday.
She told the Las
Vegas Sun that Mother was about gay rights.
“This show will be more stuff about what's happening with gay
rights, kind of what’s happened in the last several months with
DOMA and with the idea of lifting a federal ban of gay marriage, but
then what does it mean for people – like I live part time in
Georgia, part time just kind of everywhere, so what does it mean for
everybody in different places. So how to feel out what's going on.
Definitely much more in-depth about the gay man's need for a mother
figure, whether it's my own experience with being a mother figure or
people who we look at like rock stars. You know, like how gay men
have always been drawn to Judy Garland as a mother figure or Joan
Crawford or even Madonna or Lady Gaga to some extent, too,” Cho
said.
In discussing her own open marriage with artist Al Ridenour, Cho
added that “marriage is really important and what we build families
on. That's why gay marriage is really important.”
“My own personality … it doesn't really make sense to try to
be monogamous when I wouldn't be. I think it would be difficult to
try to do that. I would hate to get in the other situation of having
to get out of marriage because of the idea that I don't want to be
monogamous.”