Guardian Australia
The comedian and cabaret star on being bullied, queer rage and why tall poppy syndrome and fascism can’t exist in one culture Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email On a cold, bleak Friday morning outside inner-western Sydney’s art deco Enmore theatre, the Melbourne-born comedian and singer Reuben Kaye spontaneously climbs on to the box office window ledge. His chiselled face is free of its stage armoury of lipstick and rouge, although he jokes the shade of his flamboyant jumper is somewhere between cyan and turquoise, “like a first draft of one of the colours of the Pride flag”. The raunchy and cuddly sweater sports a huge leather man’s face by the queer artist Tom of Finland, and Kaye, 41, rolls up his sleeve to show a forearm tattoo of another of the late artist’s drawings of a sailor, whom Kaye thinks of as “never quite knowing where home is”, a feeling he relates to as a travelling performer. Continue reading...
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