Is It Time for Bravo to Cast Its First Gay Male ‘Real Hoewife’?

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• IS IT TIME FOR BRAVO TO CAST ITS FIRST GAY MALE ‘REAL HOEWIFE’?
• 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’?

Is the all-gay versn of The Real Hoewiv fally here? MTV is puttg s money behd the new realy show The Real Friends of WeHo, hopg scratch the ch fans have had wantg a gay equivalent of the popular Bravo anchise The Real show follows a group of six gay iends Wt Hollywood and is scribed as an "unfiltered and hont look at a select group of iends livg, lovg, and pursug their passns the Wt Hollywood muny. 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 fact, what gay man hasn’t seen themself one of the eccentric, fearlsly bedazzled women that have brought ternatnal acclaim (and cricism) to the Bravo anchise? One uld argue there has been more visibily of gay culture among the Hoewiv themselv than the glimps of gay men tokenized sporadic episos, like the next mt-have accsory.

Although many Hoewiv rely on the emotnal support and style wisdom of their gay iends or assistants, those men never grow out of that limed has never been a gay “Real Hoewife” the ma st of the anchise, which might not sound surprisg nsirg has always been centered around women.

BRAVO: FIRST STRAIGHT. THEN GAY. NOW ROCKED BY A REALY SUICI. WHAT’S NEW? HOW MANY? WHO’S PRODUCG?

Andy’s Girls’ podst creator and host Sarah Galli tells the Daily Beast that she don’t thk should be a qutn of whether a gay man uld be featured as a st member, but should they. ”Cohen himself revealed past terviews that the anchise me close to this gay tone the late 2000s. We almost st a guy on [Real Hoewiv of New Jersey] who was Da Manzo’s brother and Carole’s brother as the first gay Hoewife.

Wendy Osefo Pl Morigi/BravoBut the gay ias never materialized. OkCupid’s Communitns Director (and Hoewiv superfan) Michael Kaye tells The Daily Beast he would give up his first-born child to be featured as the first gay man the anchise. He thks there’s a role for any queer person any Bravo show, pecially nsirg a substantial portn of their dience is female or gay.

There’s a way to balance the origal missn of empowerg and upliftg gentrified women and ensurg you clu gay people. ”Speakg om the perspective of a person who helps lead a proment matchmaker app, he thks New York would be the most suable cy to tegrate a gay man to the existg ensemble—though recent st chang might plite thgs.