Tan France, a star of the h Netflix makeover show ‘Queer Eye’, talks about growg up gay the UK.
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- UTAH’S MOST FAMO OUT, GAY MAN PLANS TO STAY SALT LAKE CY
- QUEER, I: ‘QUEER EYE’ FASHN EXPERT TAN FRANCE ON GROWG UP GAY
UTAH’S MOST FAMO OUT, GAY MAN PLANS TO STAY SALT LAKE CY
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”And that may be more important than ever at a time when gay marriage and gay rights are unr attack, and appear to be head for a major setback the Supreme Court. He is, arguably, the most famo out, gay person Utah.
“I mean, I thought maybe the gays would regnize me every now and aga a gay bar. "Bt iends foreverIf you’ve somehow managed not to see “Queer Eye” — or s 2003-07 precsor, “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” — each episo, five gay guys offer love and support to a “hero, ” helpg him or her overe a variety of issu on the road to a better life.
Alongsi sleek new haircuts and rehabbed wardrob, the makeover program starrg five gay men tackl the ntrast between urban and ral, whe and black, liberal and show’s rint fashn expert, Tan France, swch between those worlds off-mera too. Rich Ferraro, a spokman for the LGBTQ advocy group, said the origal show helped raise awarens by brgg five succsful gay men to Amerin livg rooms across the untry.
QUEER, I: ‘QUEER EYE’ FASHN EXPERT TAN FRANCE ON GROWG UP GAY
“[The origal] was the first time we saw real gay men as opposed to actors, which, for 15 years ago, was revolutnary, ” he says. Not only are you a gay man workg wh a straight man, you’re a Pakistani helpg an Indian, when we’ve been at war for 60 years.
There's even more plexy to Peter, tangled his dually-ostracized inty as a ltle person and a gay man, yet also tied to a ath he still griev. Alongsi sleek new haircuts and rehabbed wardrob, the makeover program starrg five gay men tackl the ntrast between urban and ral, whe and black, liberal and nservative. But I do thk that this story is important for people who haven't seen reprentatn like this before” — a gay person of lor endurg discrimatn en route to TV, even though the life of a TV star is “credibly by, ” the wrg is gog well.
” France (the signated fashn gu), Bobby Berk, Karamo Brown, Antoni Parowski and Jonathan Van Ns are the “Fab Five” — gay guys who remake someone’s life each episo — and the show has bee a pop-culture phenomenon more than a after the origal “Queer Eye” end s n.