Tagged comedy

Comedians, wives Cameron Esposito and Rhea Butcher on Atlanta tour stop, empowering LGBT voices

Soon after Cameron Esposito and Rhea Butcher met and began dating in 2012 in Chicago, they decided to follow their show business dreams and headed to Los Angeles, where they quickly found work doing exactly wha...

Atlanta comedians take to the stage for LGBT social justice

Protests. Marches. Canvassing. All are important ways to share messages of inclusiveness, social justice and civil rights. But for Atlanta comedians, there’s another way to spread the word: stepping up to a ...

Three LGBT movies on the roster for 2017 Atlanta Jewish Film Festival

The Atlanta Jewish Film Festival kicks off this week, and there are three pieces LGBT moviegoers might want to add to their “must-see” lists. The documentary “The Freedom to Marry” chronicles the journey to ...

Lesbian comic Kristen Becker, straight ally Jay Bakker to ‘Loosen The Bible Belt’

What do you get when you cross a lesbian comedian with a skate-punk preacher who also happens to be the son of Jim & Tammy Faye Bakker? You get a tag-team duo hitting the South for their second “Loosen the ...

Theater: Actor Harold Leaver lets loose in ‘Santaland Diaries’

It was never intended to be a franchise. When Horizon Theatre artistic director Lisa Adler rounded up actor Harold Leaver for a reading and later a run of the comic “The Santaland Diaries,” neither knew it woul...