Margaret Cho is live, livid, and loving midlife freedom

The comedy icon sat down with The Midst to talk about her 40th-anniversary tour year, fighting for LGBTQ+ rights, and loving menopause

By Laurie White • Photos by Nick Spanos and Sergio Garcia

This is part 1 of the Margaret Cho interview. Read part 2 here.

I joined the church of Margaret Cho in 2002, when I picked up a copy of I’m the One That I Want, her book based on the smash off-Broadway show of the same name, fell in mad Gen X love, and inhaled whatever Cho material I could find on …