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She made history by coming out on TV, turned comedy into a weapon against bigotry, and never kept her mouth shut. At 84, lesbian comedy legend Robin Tyler is still punching up, taking names, and proving that laughter is an act of resistance.

qburgh.comRobin Tyler is still fighting back — one punchline at a timeWhen Robin Tyler first appeared on Showtime’s “1st Annual Funny Women’s Show” in 1978, she asked host Phyllis Diller to introduce her as a lesbian. Diller said she could do the next best thing — calling her a feminist, because she viewed the words as somewhat interchangeable to her mainstream audience. She addressed the topic from the stage anyway, with a joke that made her television’s first out lesbian comic.

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