There's A Gay Man Inside of Me

About the Project

I share my show in the first person. Because it is intimate, it is vulnerable, raw, and absolutely delightfully me. Mariana. An old soul who seems to choose theater as the main storytelling sphere for all of my thousand years.

Since my earliest memories, I’ve been somewhat of an outcast in the traditional spaces of the societies. On the same coin, I was blessed in infancy to learn freedom in a culture that at first seemed so distant from my physical experience, yet it was deeply intertwined with my soul signature — the gay male spaces of performance art. It all dawned on me in a small dance studio in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil at a time where I barely had learned to speak — but I was already fluent in shaking my body to rhythms I couldn’t explain.

The gay men of my early world reminded me of spaces ancient within me. I embrace many paradoxical labels, and therefore — I am all and none as one.

I’ve never fit in when it came to the traditional spaces of community life. In every school I attended, I grew up being mocked at, bullied and ostracized for being different… the odd one, the crazy one, the outlier. Little did I know the humans that belittled my bigness within showed me the way to share stories on permission to feel and to be — as extra, as simple, as complex, as a fully imperfectly perfect human experience. It is what I choose to now share with anyone who dares to come see me.

This is a 45-min show of sassy, entertaining, profound, thrilling and high-vibrational tales that have shaped within me a multitude of expressions — and continue to be a source of ever expansion. I share Love above all. Connection. Union.

I am unapologetic about the inner big dick energy that meshes beautifully with my Yoni powers.
Disclaimer: There will be freestyle dancing, Improv singing, wigs galore and much more.

“Faz parte do meu show. Faz parte do meu show… meu amor.”
- Cazuza, Queer legend of 80’s Brazilian rock n’roll / one my my gurus

With gratitude,
Mariana Aroxa