Here To Pee Comedy Protest Tour
Starlite Bar
April 11, 2025
Liv was joking, but not really: “Listen, if I'm going to live through another Trump presidency, I'm not going to do it as a woman.”
Last Friday, the Denver-based comedian told jokes at the Starlite as part of Ren Q. Dawe’s Here to Pee Comedy Protest Tour, a nationwide tour that will visit every single American state with the goal of raising funds to support efforts fighting anti-trans bathroom bills. So far, it has drawn crowds anywhere from twelve to 215. About 40 people showed up for the Tulsa show.
Liv used to live as a lesbian. Now, he is a bisexual transgender man. “I think it's pretty hard to pass for another gender once you've already reached adulthood,” Liv said. “It kind of feels like how you can tell when a building used to be a Pizza Hut.”
The show's bathroom-focused humor arrived at a critical moment in Oklahoma politics. Currently, the state’s trans bathroom bans only apply to public schools. It’s not a criminal offense for a trans person to use facilities aligning with their identity here—unlike in Utah or Florida. But the American Civil Liberties Union is tracking 26 anti-LGBTQ+ bills in Oklahoma.
In a conversation after the show, Dawe shared a story of his own about a group of aggressive men in Boulder who harassed him in the men’s room. That incident occurred the same week Nex Benedict died after being beaten unconscious by a group of girls in an Owasso High School bathroom. For trans people like Dawe and nonbinary folks like Benedict, the bathroom is a battleground.