OUT, LOUD & LAUGHING: A Collection of...

OUT, LOUD & LAUGHING: A Collection of Gay & Lesbian Humor edited by Charles Flowers (Anchor: $12.95; 207 pp., illustrated, paperback original). This anthology of short pieces by gay and lesbian comics is being issued in conjunction with a reading tour for “Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.” Readers of all sexual persuasions will enjoy Jaffe Cohen’s account of coming out to his parents--who immediately get into a major argument over the best route to take to the therapist. Recalling the March on Washington, Sara Cytron and Harriet Malinowitz comment, “All these chants start with ‘Hey, hey! Ho, ho!’ What are we trying to do--convince the Congress that Santa Claus wants a lesbian and gay civil rights bill?”