Kevin Allison Presents:
  • ☰

  • Listen
    • All Episodes
    • On Apple, Spotify, Stitcher, etc.
    • Best of RISK!
    • All-Star Episodes
    • Black Lives
    • Asian American Lives
    • Scary Stories
    • Holiday Stories
  • Live Shows
  • About
    • The Team
    • Praise
    • Press
  • Submissions
    • Pitch Stories
    • Submit Anecdotes
    • Deadlines & Themes
    • Storytelling Resources
    • Recording Yourself
    • Music
  • Support
    • Patreon
    • PayPal
  • Contact
  • Classes
  • Shop
  • REAL

Stories with keyword: gay

The Kiss

Keywords gay, Gay storyteller, glbtqia, GLBTQIA storyteller, homosexual, queer

Storytellers

Keywords gay, Gay storyteller, glbtqia, GLBTQIA storyteller, homosexual, queer

Barefoot In The Park Revisited

Keywords anonymous, gay, glbtqia, homosexual, hookup, Kevin Allison, Live, NYC, Podfest, queer, sex, show host

Mir-cat Manor

Keywords gay, Gay storyteller, glbtqia, GLBTQIA storyteller, homosexual, queer

Can You Handle This?

Keywords gay, Gay storyteller, glbtqia, GLBTQIA storyteller, homosexual, queer

A Muffin Appears

Joanne is a free spirit who’s worked as a circus aerialist and a touring theatre performer, and her new Argentinian boyfriend (and ESL student) Alejandro is somewhat the opposite – clean cut, responsible and stable. When Joanne invites him to … Continue reading →

Keywords Alejandro, Argentina, art, barter, Black Rock City, boyfriend, Burning Man, camp, desert, drugs, dust, dust storm, ecstasy, ESL, gay, Live story, muffin, mushroom, New York City, non-English speaker, NYC, party, psychedelic, queer, Radical Faeries, relationship, sculpture, teacher, tent, trampoline

Suspicious Packages II: Electric Boogaloo

Keywords gay, Gay storyteller, glbtqia, GLBTQIA storyteller, homosexual, queer

I Thought You Were My Friend

Keith is 22, and is the artistic director of a professional theatre company in Wilmington, DE. He loves being accessible to his audiences, and after a performance of one of the plays, a minister of a local church (“Scruffy,” Keith … Continue reading →

Keywords actor, affectionate, Celebrity storyteller, church, congregation, dating, DE, Delaware, director, flirting, friendship, gay, God, heterosexual, hugger, Live story, metrosexual, minister, misinterpretation, mistake., mixed messages, physical affection, producer, Scruffy, sexually frustrated, tease, theatre, theatre company, Wilmington

Q is for Questioning

Paul is working at a boarding school in Switzerland, and one summer day, smokes pot with a new friend, Adam, out in the woods. Paul starts to feel a flushed giddiness that he equates with the beginnings of romance — … Continue reading →

Keywords closeness, coming out, connection, drugs, gay, glbtqia, high, joint, kiss, Live story, love, marijuana, porn, pot, queer, questioning, sexual orientation, sexual preference, sexuality, smoking, stoned, Switzerland, vulnerability, weed

Howdy, Pardner!

Javier grows up in Puerto Rico on an American consulate base, frustrated by teachers who don’t understand how bilingual and bicultural he is. As he grows up and spends his graduate school years in Michigan, he feels both trapped between … Continue reading →

Keywords academia, Austin, bilingual, cowboy, fetish, fetishization, gay, giddy-up, glbtqia, hook-up, Latino, Latinx storyteller, Live, Michigan, Minneapolis, Minnesota, one night stand, pick up, POCI storyteller, Puerto Rican storyteller, queer, racism, Reba McIntyre, sex, stereotypes, Texas, West Side Story

Everyday Is Halloween

Keywords gay, Gay storyteller, glbtqia, GLBTQIA storyteller, homosexual, queer

Breaking Through

Keywords Fire Island, gay, glbtqia, homosexual, Kevin Allison, New York, NYC, queer, show host

The Deer Hunter

Ian is 10 years old, and a nerdy, “fey” kid, when his father wakes him up at 4am one day to take him deer hunting. Ian has the sense that this trip is his father’s attempt to instill him with … Continue reading →

Keywords accident, axe, Baltimore, birch, birch bark, blood, deer, gay, Guinness Book of World Records, hitchhike, hospital, hunting, Live, lookalike, masculinity, MIkhail Barishnikov, model, Native Americans, rite of passage, sex, Tomahawk, tree, tribe

Michael Pope Is Gay For Pay

Michael is 28 years old, living in NYC, and penniless after having invested everything he had in making his first indie film. After desperately searching the job ads, he gets an interview with a gay phone sex line, which is … Continue reading →

Keywords audition, broke, filmmaker, gay, hotline, improvise, interview, job ads, NYC, penniless, phone call, phone sex, Radio story, straight, supervisor

Exposure

Ryan has been taking improv and acting classes to try to challenge himself to be more outgoing, spontaneous and adventurous. One night, he’s out with some guy friends, and they end up going into a gay bar. There’s a dance … Continue reading →

Keywords bar, Best of RISK!, dance, gay, heterosexuals, improv, lick, Live, masculinity, Milwaukee, peer pressure, whipped cream

Straight Flush

David has had Crohn’s Disease for years, which is now manageable thanks to medication and life adjustments, but he still has to be very conscious when he goes out about knowing where a restroom is, and, sometimes, making a very … Continue reading →

Keywords basement, bathroom, cater waiter, catering, celebrities, chronic illness, Crohn’s Disesase, flush, gastrointenstinal disorder, gay, Gay storyteller, GI, glbtqia, high tech, homosexual, IBS, irritable bowel, LA, Live, poop, queer, restroom, toilet, Whoopi, Whoopi Goldberg

Both Sides Now

Tara grew up a working class kid in Queens, dividing her time between her divorced parents — one side Italian, one side Irish. She had tough street smarts, and, at the same time, a secret love for literature, especially Shakespeare. … Continue reading →

Keywords accent, adjective, baby, college, divorce, dyke, education, gay, girlfriend, glbtqia, grammar, intelligence, IQ, Irish, Italian, King Lear, lesbian, Lesbian storyteller, literacy, Manhattan, money, New York, New York City, pregnant, pregnant teen, Queens, queer, Radio, scrappy, self-esteem, Shakespeare, smart, stereotypes, street smart, upper-class, working class, writer

Handy Dandy

As a college student, Patrick was obsessed with masturbating. Then one day, his masturbation session in his dorm room was interrupted by Mayor R.T. Rybak, barging into dorm rooms to shake hands and discuss his bid for re-election.

Keywords bi, bisexual, comedian, dorm, dormitory, gay, jacking off, Live, masturbation, mayor, methods, Minneapolis, parents, roommates, RT Rybak, stand up comedy, U of MN, University of Minnesota

What Kind of Friend

It’s 2010, and Hank is living in NYC post grad school, and is in deep credit card debt. He becomes friends with a fellow actor, Walter, who’s so broke he’s living in his van. Hank invites Walter to be his … Continue reading →

Keywords abuser, acting, actor, Asian, Asian storyteller, bed, blow job, broke, Chinese-American storyteller, credit card debt, debt, drunk, explosive, fear, fight, force, friends, friendship, frightened, gay, glbtqia, grad school, hotel, insidious, Law & Order, Live, love, New York, NYC, platonic, POCI storyteller, police, queer, rape, roommate, sleep, stability, success, tour, unpredictable, wing man

Solitary Man

After attending the birthday party of a guy he’s crushed out on, Greg takes a walk through Tompkins Square Park, intending to enjoy some solitude, then find dinner, then go home. When he goes to leave the park at about … Continue reading →

Keywords cerebral palsy, cop, CP, disability, disabled storyteller, East Village, gates, gay, Gay storyteller, GLBTQIA storyteller, homosexual, horny, Live, locked, New York, NYC, park, passers-by, pedestrians, police, queer

Unforgettable

John does a gay Craigslist hook-up, and agrees to go to the ad-placer’s home. The man tells him, right before John leaves, that he’s a little person. John’s irritated that this man wasn’t more forthcoming prior to this, but feels … Continue reading →

Keywords Craig’s List, drag queen, dwarf, gay, Gay storyteller, Georgia, GLBTQIA storyteller, homosexual, hookup, intercourse, little person, married, queer, Radio story, sex, southern, weed, wife

Ham and Samurai

Keywords anonymous, Asian, balls, CBT, Converse, East Village, gay, gay culture, jacking off, Japanese, kink, Live, masturbation, naked, NYC, NYU, one night stand, pick up, queer, Samurai, sex, sex acts, sex club, shoes, strip, testicles, underground

On Tour

    • 07 / 19 / 2022 - Los Angeles
    • RISK!'s live show in LA and online
    • 07 / 21 / 2022 - New York
    • RISK!'s live show in NYC and online
    • 07 / 30 / 2022 - Detroit
    • RISK! Live in Detroit, MI (Ferndale)
    • 07 / 31 / 2022 - Chicago
    • RISK! Live in Chicago
    • 08 / 16 / 2022 - Los Angeles
    • RISK!'s live show in LA and online
    • 09 / 20 / 2022 - Los Angeles
    • RISK!'s live show in LA and online
    • 09 / 22 / 2022 - New York
    • RISK!'s live show in NYC and online
    • 10 / 18 / 2022 - Los Angeles
    • RISK!'s live show in LA and online
    • 11 / 15 / 2022 - Los Angeles
    • RISK!'s live show in LA and online
    • 11 / 17 / 2022 - New York
    • RISK!'s live show in NYC and online
    • 12 / 13 / 2022 - Los Angeles
    • RISK!'s live show in LA and online

RISK! Newsletter

Want to hear about our live shows, podcast episodes and classes? Sign up for our email list below:


Listen To Our New Podcast
The RISK! book features 37 of our best stories ever, in paperback, ebook and audiobook form.

Get the RISK! Book
Gain confidence speaking in public. Improve in business, among friends, and dating.

Learn Storytelling

Buy Tickets