That’s not the only time being trans has affected her comedy. Once, when touring with a headlining comic, a club owner refused to let McBride perform. And another comic refused to perform in a venue on the same night as McBride. “It gets to you,” she said. “That’s real cancel culture.”
McBride is just one of many trans comics who faces prejudice and discrimination in landing gigs because of who they are. Yet it’s not trans comics who are loudly complaining about cancel culture. It’s cis comics like Dave Chappelle, Bill Burr and Ricky Gervais who make it a staple of their comedy.
Ben Lee, for some reason.
The series is called Sunset Piazza and it’s set to take place right outside St Mary’s Cathedral (the one opposite Hyde Park) on what the organisers are calling an “Italo-themed outdoor summer stage”. No idea what that means and why they didn’t just go with Leichhardt’s iconic Italian Forum, but it still sounds pretty cool.
Tickets to the events over 32 nights are $25 each and there’ll also be plenty of nibblies and drinks to purchase if you’re feeling a bit bougie.
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