Margaret Cho’s aesthetic

Margaret Cho on a Motorbike. Ish.

It quickly became apparent to us that aesthetic was an important thing to Margret, so we asked if her look was consciously sculpted: ‘Oh yea, well to me I wanted to be that kind of motorcycle mama thing, but also kind of, a little bit my own way… bikes are always a symbol for me of the young gay men that I grew up with who would ride me on the back of their bikes, and the dykes on bikes, who I would always see at the Gay Pride, and they’re so empowering’. When we mentioned the odd relationship that bikes have with masculinity, Cho concurred, saying, ‘when you look at an artist like Tom of Finland, he has a lot of biker imagery, and it is like that hyper-masculine that it becomes homoerotic, and then you add great images like the dykes on bikes and they’re so masculine themselves that it’s really feminine and it’s so queer. I just love that play on gender’.

‘I try and keep alzheimers and arthritis at bay’
Interview with Margaret Cho, 6th September

Published: 11th September 2012

Categorised in: For the Record, Friends of Tom