gay play (NO HOMO) at Rise Comedy

gay play (NO HOMO) play dives into a world of kaleidoscopic reality. At times, it's a commentary on the state of queer people in 2025 while also being a living and breathing survivial guide as to how to navigate a world that has a target on your back.

Each different scene is stained by various satirized perspectives: through the writer’s own perspective, through a far-right fever dream, a trans/nonbinary nurse’s lecture, an Ozempic-toting boy toy, and so many more. This all comes together to seemingly encapsulate the “gay experience”. gay play (NO HOMO) is a story while also a personalized instruction manual on how current queens should conduct themselves.

This play provocatively unpacks the complexities of queerness under scrutiny, censorship, and erasure. At the heart of this piece, the playwright dares to ask, “How gay is too gay?” and “Who gets to be gay?” in an effort to show an audience how sinister and cruel the answers are as they manifest iinto the sobering reality of waiting to recieve care at a health clinic.