10 QUESTIONS with VIC: Featuring MARGARET CHO

Thought she humbly calls herself, “just a comedian”, Margaret Cho is so much more. Being a successful comedian for over twenty years is impressive on its own, but she has-stood up for a lot more than stand-up. She has transcended boundaries as an actress, humanitarian, women’s, Asians and LGBT Rights Advocate, designer and a writer.

Your iconism is multi-layered, dense and transcends various stereotypes. So, modesty aside, how would you describe yourself? I’m a comedian – that’s it! I do a lot of things, but basically I’m just a comic.

How is West Hollywood / Los Angeles different than other major cities? I love WeHo and I’ll always live here. It’s my home and I miss it when I’m gone. We have everything here and the diversity is profound!

Do adoring fans ever get too much?
Never! I love my fans!

What do you like about West Hollywood?
Everything I need is just a few steps away. And all my friends are here!

What’s new on your play list?
Lots of Daft Punk!

Favorite local lunch spot?
Zankou chicken

What’s your favorite charity or cause?
Trevor project

What living person in our community do you most admire?
Elizabeth Warren

What exciting project(s) do you have coming up?
A new TV Show!

Tell me a secret
I’m a skincare fanatic and do weird things to my face involving snails.

Vic Gerami

A noted columnist, Vic Gerami is also a journalist and media contributor who is also publisher and editor of The Blunt Post. His show, 'The Blunt Post with Vic' on Public Radio KPFK 90.7 FM, part of Pacifica Network, launched in 2018. Today reaching national international audiences, Gerami first built a foundation of knowledge and skills by learning the media industry during his years at Frontiers Magazine, followed by positions at LA Weekly and Voice Media Group. For the second time, Gerami was selected as a finalist in the Los Angeles Press Club’s National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards “Columnist of the Year” category in 2019, having first made the final round of consideration in 2017. His celebrity Q&A column, '10 Questions with Vic', is syndicated internationally. The Wall Street Journal featured Gerami as a “leading gay activist” in its landmark 2008 coverage of opposition to Proposition 8, the ballot measure that for years denied same-sex couples in California the freedom to marry. In addition to his years of volunteer work as a leading advocate for marriage equality, later Gerami went on to serve as a Planning Committee member for the historic Resist March in 2017. Vic Gerami is also a founding board member of Equality Armenia. In 2015, Gerami was referenced in the landmark Supreme Court civil rights case, Obergefell v. Hodges, in which the Court held in a 5–4 decision that the fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples by both the Due Process and the Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Vic Gerami is a contributor to the LGBTQ San Diego County News, Windy City Times, Montrose Star, DC Life Magazine, Out & About Nashville, Q Virginia, GNI MAG, QNotes, GoWeHo, Asbarez, California Courier, Desert Daily Guide, Armenian Weekly, GED, The Pride LA, IN Magazine, OUT Traveler, The Fight and The Advocate Magazine among others.

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