Photo Illtratn by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty/NBC UniversalEvery queer viewer nodd unison when Real Hoewiv of Beverly Hills' newbie Diana Jenks, meetg her stmat on mera for the first time the Season 12 premiere, nfsed that she is a gay man trapped si a woman's body. And on a show that clus veterans Lisa Rna and Eryka Jayne, Jenks is hardly the only one at the table whose personaly channels bold queerns or whose style might dabble
Contents:
- LOGO CHIEF CHRIS MCCARTHY ON HOW THE NETWORK RETURNED TO ITS GAY ROOTS; WHY BRAVO IS NOT COMPETN
- ANDY COHEN WON'T LET YOU CALL BRAVO GAY
- BRAVO: FIRST STRAIGHT. THEN GAY. NOW ROCKED BY A REALY SUICI. WHAT’S NEW? HOW MANY? WHO’S PRODUCG?
- IS IT TIME FOR BRAVO TO CAST ITS FIRST GAY MALE ‘REAL HOEWIFE’?
LOGO CHIEF CHRIS MCCARTHY ON HOW THE NETWORK RETURNED TO ITS GAY ROOTS; WHY BRAVO IS NOT COMPETN
The Advote lov Andy Cohen. They don't know anythg about his personal life, but they n't get enough of him, even though he says his work isn't gay and that he don't want the spotlight. Say what?! * is bravo a gay channel *
In fact, when Queer Eye for the Straight Guy premiered, the Chigo Tribune claimed that the show was helpg to make televisn more "gay-iendly. In fact, Jai Rodriguez, a star of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, told BuzzFeed News that he realized jt how much more accepted beg gay was 2018.
ANDY COHEN WON'T LET YOU CALL BRAVO GAY
When MTV’s siblg gay work Logo first buted the summer of 2005, few uld have predicted the LGBT human rights movement would be where is today.
Bh had jt been reelected thanks to an aggrsive anti-gay marriage mpaign.
The new gay work seemed like a godsend to many the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr muny.
BRAVO: FIRST STRAIGHT. THEN GAY. NOW ROCKED BY A REALY SUICI. WHAT’S NEW? HOW MANY? WHO’S PRODUCG?
But 2012, after dismal ratgs and few buzzworthy shows, Logo sentially went back to the closet, dchg s gay-centric missn, and promptg Queerty, a popular gay blog, to ask, “Is Logo, Ameri’s first broadst channel for the LGBT muny, gog straight? There was a lot of excement the gay muny back then.
IS IT TIME FOR BRAVO TO CAST ITS FIRST GAY MALE ‘REAL HOEWIFE’?
Chris McCarthy: Logo has been a part of the gay culture. The gay movement has moved so quickly, ’s probably the fastt movg civil rights movement history.
You thk about Obama and Clton havg their first gay bate on Logo. In 2012 you guys me out wh a statement sayg that Logo will no longer be gay channel, Do you nsir yourself a gay channel now? We are a channel that is born and bread om a gay culture and now that subculture is drivg mass culture.
We certaly don’t tell anyone else they n’t jo , but we are gay our re. What do you say to crics who say there’s no need for a gay work anymore now that gay culture has been succsfully tegrated to mastream society?