‘No Homo’ at Theatre Asylum

Is there a Hollywood Fringe Festival award that “No Homo” didn’t win? It was winner of the festival’s Golden Elephant award for Golden Playwright (Brandon Baruch), the Ezra Buzzington Spirit of the Fringe award for Best Director (Jessica Hanna), the Fringe Freak Award for Best in Ensemble Theater, the Fringe Freak Award for Fringe First – Best World Premiere, and garnering nominations for the Golden Elephant Award for Golden Production, the O-Face Award for Most Orgasmic Playwright (Brandon Baruch), the Ezra Buzzington Spirit of the Fringe Award for Best Playwright (Brandon Baruch) and the Fringe Freak Award for Top of Fringe.

“No Homo” tells the tale of Luke and Ash, two 20-something Los Angeles urbanites who identify as heterosexual, even though their friendship is totally gay. Playwright Brandon Baruch says that “growing up in and around West Hollywood, my sexual orientation has never been a big part of my identity. I feel like most LGBT theater, film, and literature concentrates on the characters’ struggles to create an identity and find acceptance. But that’s simply not my experience. “No Homo” is less about the struggle to accept one’s sexual identity than it is about the quest to understand one’s sexual identity. It also validates my theory that a person doesn’t have to be homosexual to be really, really gay.”

“No Homo” is at Theatre Asylum for three nights. Tickets, $15, are available online.