Diversity storms the spaces of humor
Remember the famous “Mariquitas” chistes of theArea? Until recently, this was the only reference for many locals when they were talking about LGTBIQ+comedy. The comedy scene, so much popular Alternatively, he has been copied by heterosexual men, and inevitably loaded with heteronormative stereotypes and clichés where diversity was (and is) the easy white of teasing and gossip. Luckily, this has begun to change.
In the 2000s, the famous television program The Comedy Club It popularized comic monologues, but it has not been until the last decade that the city has experienced a real hatching of theStand-up Comedy. The influence of Anglo -Saxon humor on new generations of artists, reached in real time with social networks and stress platforms, has enhanced that a bars circuit, such as The medium or the Rougeprogram comedy shows with stability. Even the theaters have adapted part of their programming to become stand-up clubs, such as the Golem’s and The molino. None of this would be understood without the incessant work of groups like the Comedy Gold, Too Comedy, The other mic or Infololsto name just a few, that the skin has been left to weave a powerful alternative humor circuit. This suck has been essential for the LGTBIQ+ collective to find their own space to freely laugh between Besòs and Llobregat.
‘Loca’: the first Open Act LGTBIQ+ comedy
Andrea flour It is one of the most in the form of the city. Originally from Italy and a graphic training designer, he settled in Barcelona after a few months living and finding love. The desire to look for an after-school that did not go through the gym led him to sign up for a monologue course that introduced him to the city’s comedy scene. Quickly discovered the anomaly that reigned the Open Mics and stand-up shows From the city: Most comics were heterosexual, and thus dragged a similar audience. “Mariconades, the just”. A paradox in an internationally recognized city as a gay capital, with one of the most recognized and flagged pride of reception in the LGTBIQ+public. How could it be? The comedy was not interested in the Bolleres, ladybugs, trans …?
Andrea Farina and Maria Lyona
Denying the possibility that the collective did not have a representative space found inspiration in the comic Penny Jaygthat had started in Madrid the Riot comedya comedy space only for women. The success of the feminist comedy model was the spark that led him to create in the small room where the Loca Comedythe first comedy Open LGTBIQ+ of the city, which has gradually become a benchmark in the Normalization of the visibility of the collective from humor. Presented by flour itself and Maria Lyonais programmed once a month at La Golem’s with an intergenerational cast where all comics identify within the range of the Iris arch spectrum. March Llinàs, Pepi Labrador, Eñaut zuazo, Josie Asquerosi, Gloria Ribera or Ignasi Taltavull These are some of the comic books that have been recently performed, but it is not excluding who does not belong to collective: in each function they invite a renowned heterosexual comic, investing the usual roles where the various artists are part of “La Quota”.
‘Pintxo de Tortilla’
Other spaces of diverse humor
However, it is not the only one: the Loca Comedy It joins other spaces that have been consolidated on the Barcelona billboard like the Pintxo de Tortillato Saints Loyalty. Never Boncompte and Cristina Guyo They organize, once a month, some fun vermouths with comedy where the gaze is a feminist, lesbian and anti -patriarchal. Not to mention the atmosphere with cultural programming with a strong presence of comedy and transformism, such as The Federica, The crab or Dragus circuits of The ravalada and the Sarao Drag of the Apollo. Barcelona is diverse, but above all, hilarious.
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