The Struggle to Change the Perspective of Gay Comics

When Dave started comedy, he was described as a dude comic by a lot of people I spoke with. The comedy scene at the time, gay comics were often quite a feat. They played into a sort of, there was a certain stereotype that was associated with gay comics. And part of the effort when he did come out and start doing more comedy was to really try and change the perspective of what gay men are gay comics in New York had to be like. But before then, he really did struggle with this. He talks about drinking a lot of wine, about smoking, excessive amounts of parts, cheap wine,. If I'm not mistaken. It really was torturing himself about his sexuality