Gay-Themed ‘After Forever’ Sr 5 At Daytime Emmy Awards • Instct Magaze

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• FIVE TIME EMMY AWARD-WNG ‘AFTER FOREVER’ IS A MT WATCH DIGAL SERI ABOUT GAY MEN
• 'AFTER FOREVER' IS AN EMMY-WNG DRAMA SERI ABOUT GAY MEN OVER 40
• AFTER FOREVER A GAY SERI WH A CULT FOLLOWG GETS STREAMED ON AMAZON
• GAY-THEMED ‘AFTER FOREVER’ SR 5 AT DAYTIME EMMY AWARDS

FIVE TIME EMMY AWARD-WNG ‘AFTER FOREVER’ IS A MT WATCH DIGAL SERI ABOUT GAY MEN

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‘After Forever’ chang the way olr gay men are portrayed media through relatable and touchg characters who fe huge humor and heart to the short-form episos. GLAAD has been phg Hollywood and entertament to crease the diversy of LGBTQ stori, but one segment of the muny which is nsistently ignored by media is olr gay men.

‘After Forever’ fally tells the story of a group of gay men, pl other LGBTQ characters, who are thrivg New York Cy and al wh life’s ups and downs – om parentg to relatnships to Patti LuPone. Season one of ‘After Forever’ garnered rave reviews for, what the show scrib as “tellg the rarely seen story of vibrant, active, diverse grown-up gay men… a group who tend to disappear om televisn and film once they are no longer 20- or 30-somethg, not returng until they are elrly and non-sexual.

'AFTER FOREVER' IS AN EMMY-WNG DRAMA SERI ABOUT GAY MEN OVER 40

But the feelg that ntued to wash over me, wh every w, was this scribable joy and pri that Michael’s and my story had reached out and touched the hearts of an dience that was not jt a gay dience. But by the time Kev and I stood on the stage acceptg the award for Outstandg Digal Drama Seri… lookg out at thoands of people cheerg for … and for this gay love story, I thought, we really have e somewhere as a society. G: How do you thk After Forever is changg the game for reprentatn of gay men?

M & K: It’s rare to see 50-ish gay men portrayed televisn and movi, and even rarer to see them prented as vibrant, sexual, fully human begs (as wonrful as they are, do we ever see ‘Morn Fay’s’ Mchell and Cam beg even remotely sexual wh each other? AFTER FOREVER has shown there is an dience anx to follow and bee volved a ep, hont gay love story… and though we wanted to create the seri to give our ntemporari a story they uld relate to, has been particularly gratifyg to disver that ours is far om exclively a gay middle-aged dience.

Our fan mail shows that our viewers are gay, straight, transgenr, male, female, racially diverse, young, middle-aged and elrly. The msage here is clear that jt as gay people have always found ways to intify wh, and bee volved , stori about straight people, the reverse n be te if the characters are fully drawn, plex, hont human begs. After sharg a lgh about how the “soaps” always like to keep the actors away om wrers, our nversatn eventually led to both havg a great sire to tell stori about gay men over 40 and reclaim a place for ourselv on the nvas of story tellg… The rt is history.

AFTER FOREVER A GAY SERI WH A CULT FOLLOWG GETS STREAMED ON AMAZON

M: At that chance meetg, when Kev said he was terted creatg a seri about gay men who were “our age” – that spoke to me. As humoro and fun as many of the LGBTQ characters were to watch, the world that I grew up was not acceptable of homosexualy; somethg that I knew I was. I am sorry to adm that many, if not most, of the LGBTQ characterizatns on TV sred and embarrassed me bee at the re of my beg, I knew I was jt like them on some level, and knew if I wanted to be a leadg man show biz, I was gog to have to hi my tth of beg gay.

) Thank God tim are different now… but took me jt as many years, as has the dtry, to accept myself, and to be okay wh beg gay, and beg proud enough to open up about — to tell stori, that not only help heal our hearts, but hopefully spire people to be acceptg of themselv and others.

I am very proud of my work  After Forever and I am beyond grateful to Michael Sla, for -creatg characters a story where the two gay men are simply two men love. M: The first LGBTQ TV image I remember was the TV movie, THAT CERTAIN SUMMER starrg Hal Holbrook and Mart Sheen as a uple who happened to be gay. I don’t know how holds up today, but 1970 this image of a gay uple who were prented as “normal” had a huge impact on me.

GAY-THEMED ‘AFTER FOREVER’ SR 5 AT DAYTIME EMMY AWARDS

Among her iends were a gay uple and a transgenr woman. Still, seeg gay men prented that way on televisn was different… somehow legimized my own nascent feelgs about who I was, or might be, a whole other way. About a mid 50s gay uple livg New York, Brian and Jason, After Forever is a touchg and funny romantic tale that is uniquely hysteril and heartbreakg at the same time.

A nearly realistic portrayal of what ’s like to be a middle-aged gay uple and the life and tim of middle-aged gay man, After Forever is the perfect gay seri to power through, even one settg.

His film creds clu Love is Strange, Daddyhunt the Movie, Hidg Daylight, & The Big Gay Mil.