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• 'GAY PRI & PREJUDICE' TRAILER: JSE TYLER FERGON PREVIEWS NEW JANE ATEN ADAPTATN (EXCLIVE)
• SPOTIFY’S ‘GAY PRI & PREJUDICE’ MARRI A BELOVED CLASSIC WH QUEER STORI AND SCRIPTED FICTN PODSTS
• A MORN GAY TAKE ON 'PRI AND PREJUDICE' IS HEADG YOUR WAY
• GAY PRI & PREJUDICE
• GAY PRI & PREJUDICE CREATORS ON UPDATG JANE ATEN FOR THE PODST AGE
• JANE ATEN MEETS MARRIAGE EQUALY GAY PRI & PREJUDICE PODST
• GAY PRI AND PREJUDICE

'GAY PRI & PREJUDICE' TRAILER: JSE TYLER FERGON PREVIEWS NEW JANE ATEN ADAPTATN (EXCLIVE)

Jane Aten’s Pri & Prejudice is about to get a queer twist thanks to Zackary Grady, who created, directed and wrote the all-new fictnal podst, Gay Pri & Prejudice. In the seri, Ben, a 30-somethg non-mtal gay man, stggl to fd belongg when his chosen fay sudnly begs uplg up and settlg down.

“Gay Pri & Prejudice is a joyful and hilar story about love and chosen fay.

To fally have those two discipl e together on Gay Pri & Prejudice and work wh Jse, Jt, the Spotify/Gimlet team, and this sane st is an absolute dream e te.

SPOTIFY’S ‘GAY PRI & PREJUDICE’ MARRI A BELOVED CLASSIC WH QUEER STORI AND SCRIPTED FICTN PODSTS

The film is also a retellg of Pri & Prejudice wh a gay perspective and featur an all-LGBTQ st, cludg Bowen Yang, Conrad Rimora and Margaret Cho. Gay Pri & Prejudice premier May 25 exclively for ee on Spotify.

Photo: The st and crew of Gay Pri & Prejudice (L-R Ronald Peet, Vella Lovell, Zackary Grady, Jse Tyler Fergon, Jt Mika, Blake Lee) on the red rpet ahead of their Tribe Film Ftival Panel: “A Romantic Comedy Event: Gay Pri and Prejudice. Supreme Court lg favor of gay marriage, set out to work on a script for a queer, morn stage adaptatn. Around the start of the panmic, his ia transned om one on the stage to a fully dory performance—spurrg the new fictn podst Gay Pri & Prejudice.

A MORN GAY TAKE ON 'PRI AND PREJUDICE' IS HEADG YOUR WAY

The Spotify Origal podst and Gimlet productn follows Ben, a 30-somethg gay man navigatg datg and avoidg mment Boston, over the urse of a year. Gay Pri & Prejudice buted time for Pri Month and new episos are released every Wednday.

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“Gay Pri & Prejudice tak place om June 2015 to June 2016, so is a perd piece, ” Zackary told For the Rerd. Zackary’s first imprsn of Pri and Prejudice was that was “very gay” s origal tellg. Oh, so they’re gay, ” he joked.

The entire st, though, is clear-eyed about the relevance of Gay Pri & Prejudice’s settg today. Fans who listen to Gay Pri & Prejudice will enunter a st of characters who reprent many facets of the LGBTQ muny—and give a voice not only to different rac and sexuali, but also to those who are HIV+. Some of the characters even flipped mon nventns—such as the gay bt iend trope—on their heads.

GAY PRI & PREJUDICE CREATORS ON UPDATG JANE ATEN FOR THE PODST AGE

Gay Pri & Prejudice is part of a more recent trend embracg celebratory, over-the-top, and even satiril pictns of queer life and muny mastream media. The gays serve a romp. Listen on the tale of Ben and Darcy the latt episos of Gay Pri & Prejudice every Wednday throughout June.

Jane Aten ’s Pri and Prejudice gets transported to the Amerin South “Before the Fall, ” a morn, gay-themed “reimagg” of the lerary classic. “Appalachia is nsistently picted on film as homophobic and vlent [but] the real world is much more plex than the stereotyp, ” he said.

Ultimately, Geiser hop viewers will be remd that “the basic human need to experience life wh the person you love is the same basic need for both straight and gay people” after viewg his film, which premiered at Reelg: The Chigo LGBTQ Internatnal Film Ftival September.

JANE ATEN MEETS MARRIAGE EQUALY GAY PRI & PREJUDICE PODST

“I feel a huge rponsibily as a filmmaker to prent gay characters who generate a strong, emotnal nnectn wh the dience, ” he said, “and who provi the dience wh an opportuny to abandon prejudic.

Acrdg to fdgs om the survey “Discrimatn Ameri: Experienc and Views of LGBTQ Amerins, ” a majory of LGBTQ+ people have at some pot been the target of homophobic slurs and negative ments about their sexualy and genr inty, and most have been threatened or harassed or have experienced vlence at some pot bee of their sexual orientatn or genr inty. Of those targeted by this vlence, 47 percent intified as gay, 17 percent as lbian, 14 percent as heterosexual, 8 percent as queer, and 8 percent as bisexual. This nonprof anizatn attempts to “uplift, empower, and nnect lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer...

The Employment Non-discrimatn Act, a bill that would protect lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people om employment discrimatn, was troduced Congrs every year om 1994 to 2013. Moreover, as support for the bill creased, so too did the claims that the protectns would vlate the relig eedom of those who see homosexualy as a s, rultg the addn of relig-exemptn language versns of the bill.

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For example, a 2017 survey nducted by the Center for Amerin Progrs, 8 percent of gay, lbian, and bisexual rponnts reported beg nied service by a doctor or health re provir; 7 percent reported that doctors had refed to regnize their fay, such as a child or same-sex partner; 9 percent reported that provirs had ed abive language; and 7 percent experienced unwanted physil ntact by a doctor or health re provir. For example, the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn removed homosexualy om the list of mental illns documented s Diagnostic and Statistil Manual 1973, and the Amerin Psychologil Associatn has taken a affirmative stance toward LGBTQ+ people sce 1975. ”[16] Neverthels some mental and physil health practners still believe that homosexualy is a disorr, as do some members of the general public.