RISK!: True Stories People Never Thought They'd Dare to Share by Kevin Allison

Author:Kevin Allison
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biography & Autobiography, Computers, Essays, Family & Relationships, Humor, Literary Collections, Personal Memoirs, Podcasting & Webcasting, Web
Publisher: Hachette
Published: 2018-07-17T03:00:00+00:00

Taking the RISK!

A Q&A with Dan Savage

What do you like or dislike about telling stories onstage, as opposed to on the page?

You interact with the audience when you’re on stage, and feed off their energy, and very often that energy winds up shaping and directing your piece. It’s not about playing to the crowd, it’s about playing with the crowd. Really playing with them, in the “hey, let’s all jump on the swing set together!” sense, not the “toying with” sense. I love that.

You’ve made a career of encouraging people to come out about issues in their private lives. In the long run, do you feel like it’s helping?

I think more and more people are out now about more and more things—and that’s wonderful. I really feel that the LGBT community modeled something important for the straight community. Telling your truth, even a difficult one, even one that you can only tell at great personal risk, is liberating. It’s freeing—and who doesn’t want to be free?

This is a story about trying something for the first time. Why do you think so many stories go there?

Those experiences are electrifying—your first bungee jump is always way more exciting than your thirtieth bungee jump. You’re a lot likelier to crap your pants that first time!

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