In A Funny Time to Be Gay, Ed Karvoski Jr. traces the evolution of gay and lesbian comedy from the few pioneers in New York's Greenwich Village in the seventies, to the mavericks who played San Francisco's famed Valencia Rose in the eighties, to the comics who starred in their own TV specials in the nineties and continue to headline comedy clubs.

Among the more than 30 humorists spotlighted...

- TOM AMMIANO - longtime San Francisco elected official

- JUDY CARTER - three-time author including The Homo Handbook

- KATE CLINTON - three-time author including Don't...