Ashley Gavin, the masc lesbian comic from New York, delivered a superb set at the Glee Club in Glasgow, blending big laughs with twisty logic. The show, which drew an ardent queer fanbase, explored gender conventions through routines on topics like waxing, the clitoris, and fertility.
Gavin, who rose to fame online during the pandemic with viral crowd work clips and the podcast We're Having Gay Sex, presented a series of routines that scrambled traditional gender signifiers. She argued that the clitoris is essentially a 'tiny dick' and mused on penetration as 'envelopment', all delivered with great command.
The show concluded with Gavin's fertility journey, where she claimed 'it's manly, getting pregnant', using lively routines about oestrogen treatment and mating rituals to support her point. However, the set ended with a clunky gear change into a crowd-work section, which Gavin described as 'a necessary evil'.
