Raised By Gays and Turned Out OK!

I laughed pretty much continuously throughout the unimpressively titled Raised by Gays and Turned Out OK!, which surprised me since the narrative I’ve constructed for myself says I don’t like women’s identity issue monologues. For my sins, I was assigned two to review last night, and I thoroughly enjoyed this one. This would be a much easier review to write if I hadn’t, if I could just rehash the Politics of Identity Is Stifling American Discourse rants I’ve been spieling for years. Now, I am far from the only liberal to think that the Safety-Trumps-Truth mentality is in fact killing intellectual progress, but Elizabeth Collins isn’t killing anything except IT, as in “she killed last night,” and it is she about whom I am tasked to write. So:
Collins grew up moving house a lot, mostly around the American south, because her toy store-manager dad kept getting promoted. Also because her dad was queer. Her mom’s sexuality also seems like it might be a little abnormative, though it never man

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Hollywood, CA – RAISED BY GAYS AND TURNED OUT OK!, a one-person show written and performed by Los Angeles based comedian and storyteller, Elizabeth Collins debuts at the Hollywood Fringe Festival on June 5, 2015. Based on her true-life experience of being raised by a mom and dad for the first half of her childhood and for the second half, a team of gay men in Texas during the 90s.

While she embraces her father’s lifestyle in high school, in college she becomes a Christian and questions the morality of homosexuality. Through difficulties in her personal life and with her church, she comes to truly understand how being gay is not a choice, because you cannot choose who you love.

“Elizabeth Collins not only has a unique, entertaining and crazy upbringing, she has a knack for telling crowds of strangers all about it. Elizabeth succeeds at making those lucky enough to hear her tale cringe, laugh and feel moved all at once.” Margot Leitman, Moth Grandslam W