Margaret Cho will appear in a new Lifetime Series, Drop Dead Diva, set to premiere July 12th. In promoting this show, she did an interview with CNN - and when the topic of sexuality came up, she said she identifies as queer, despite being married to a man. Which we're sure he's happy to hear. Then she tried to clarify, and made things less clear...
CNN: You are such an icon in the gay community, but some
people took you to task for an interview with The New York Times where
you said you identified yourself as gay, although you are married to a
man.
Cho: I identify as queer. I've had a lot of same-sex
relationships in my life, and I guess it would be bisexual, but to me
it's more appropriate to say I am queer. I am also attracted to
transgender persons, and bisexual doesn't cover it. I feel like being
queer is my politics, it's my life; it's the community I do the most
political work in, for the gay, lesbian and the transgender community.
Being married made it much more important for me to fight for gay
marriage, because I believe marriage is vital for us as people.
Ah. Okay. You like all the parts, and whoever they are attached to. Does that make you pansexual? Tri-sexual? Also, being married to someone of the opposite sex somehow made you queerer. Um, yay? This whole thing has us so confused. What we do know is, though Margaret Cho would never vote for Sarah Palin, she does totally want to have sex with her:
