The Coming Out Monologues 2025
Content Warnings & Glossary
This page provides audience care information for our live storytelling shows. We believe queer stories deserve both celebration and consent: content warnings help folks decide what’s right for them, and a playful glossary supports shared language and understanding.
Please feel empowered to step away from the theatre if you need to, and to return for the next storyteller.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10th - Content Warnings by Monologue
MICHELLE
- Generational/historical homophobia
- Pathologizing of queerness (“mental illness” classifications)
- Identity anxiety / closet themes
VENESSA
- Trans identity & later-life transition
- Relationship breakdown
- Misgendering / “clocky” experiences (implied)
- Public disclosure
DAYN
- Misgendering
JON
- Racism
- Addiction
CHARLIE/SOFIA
- Religious homophobia
- Catholic context
- Trans identity & name/pronoun affirmation challenges
- Family conflict/conditional acceptance
- Migration/financial hardship (family support across borders)
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11th - Content Warnings by Monologue
AME
- Death, Grief and Regret
- Car Crash / Hospitalization
- Strong Language
JERRY
- Religious trauma
- Conversion therapy–adjacent interrogation
- Accusation of childhood sexual abuse from a church leader
- Homophobia; faith-community conflict over marriage equality
SAM
- Childhood homophobia/sexism
- Controlling or unsafe home dynamics (“frightful husband”)
- Catholic school pressures
ANTHONY
- Family confrontation / coming-out anxiety
- Alcohol / hangover
- Strong language
- Explicit queer language reclamation
EVA
- Physical transition surprises
- Car crash and related trauma
- Sibling death
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12th - Content Warnings by Monologue
HEATHER
- Addiction & recovery
- Depressive episodes; suicidal ideation (car-crash fantasy)
- Divorce/confrontation
TR
- Rigid gender roles; internalized homophobia
- People-pleasing; risky sex/alcohol in youth
- Small-town religious pressure
CHLOE
- Anti-trans discrimination (denied service; media outing)
- Public outing
- Mention of past depression and suicidality “at times”
- Coming-out stress
CECE
- Autism mention
- Parental estrangement
- Trans misogyny
- Medical transition details; voice/presentation dysphoria
- Hate-crime context reference
Photos and poster design by Wilmer Aburto
Banner photo by Shannon Johnston
Monologue Glossary - Cute, queer & a little sassy!
Because shared language makes the world less weird.
- Coming Out — The ongoing “tell your truth” tour. Not a one-and-done; more like a world tour with surprise encores.
- Closet / Out of the Closet — Metaphorical storage unit for your truth. Key found, rent cancelled.
- Clocky — When cis folks think they can “read” a trans person. Spoiler: bad hobby.
- Trans Woman — A woman who is trans. That’s it, that’s the tweet. Some transition socially, medically, or both.
- Gender Dysphoria / Euphoria — Dysphoria: the ouch. Euphoria: the sparkle. The latter is the point.
- HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy) — Medical transition that can bring curves, feels, and new mirror moments.
- Pronouns — Little words, big respect. “She/Her,” “He/Him,” “They/Them,” etc. Use what’s stated, not what you assume.
- Non-Binary — Not boxed into “man/woman.” Think spectrum, not switch.
- Bi-curious / Bisexual — Attraction to more than one gender; curiosity counts, identity is valid.
- Queer — Umbrella term reclaimed by many; community-made, community-owned.
- Chosen Family — The crew who love you on purpose. Sometimes the family that matters most.
- Outing — When someone shares your identity without consent. Not okay.
- Pussy — The body part, not the slur – think vulva, not vulgar!
- Ally — Not a title; a verb. Show up, listen up, level up.
If you need support, help is available:
Crisis & Mental Health Supports
Distress Centre Calgary (24/7 Crisis line) – 403-266-4357 (HELP), distresscentre.com
Talk Suicide Canada (24/7 National) – 1-833-456-4566, or text 45645, talksuicide.ca
Kids Help Phone (24/7 National) – 1-800-668-6868 or text CONNECT to 686868, kidshelpphone.ca
2SLGBTQIA+ Supports
Skipping Stone Foundation (Calgary) – trans and gender-diverse health, social, and family supports, skippingstone.ca
Centre for Sexuality (Calgary) – counselling, youth groups, parent supports, centreforsexuality.ca
Calgary Outlink – peer support groups, information & referrals, calgaryoutlink.ca
Trans Lifeline – peer support by and for trans people, 1-877-330-6366, translifeline.org
Legal Information & Clinics
Alberta Human Rights Commission – information & complaint process, 1-780-427-7661, albertahumanrights.ab.ca
Calgary Legal Guidance – free legal advice clinics, 403-234-9266, clg.ab.ca
Edmonton Community Legal Centre – free legal help (provincial reach), 780-702-1725, eclc.ca