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Each stalment shows talent workg on both sis of the mera, cludg queer creativ and alli to the muny.</strong></p><p data-no-id="1" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0"><strong>Next up, we're speakg to <em>Amerin Gods</em> star </strong><strong>Dana Aliya Levson.</strong></p><style data-emotn="css ligahs">{width:100%;}@media(m-width: 20rem){{marg-left:to;marg-right:to;width:100%;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{marg-left:to;marg-right:to;width:100%;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{width:50%;marg-left:1rem;marg-right:0rem;float:right;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{width:50%;marg-left:1rem;marg-right:0rem;float:right;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{width:50%;marg-left:1rem;marg-right:0rem;float:right;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{width:45%;marg-left:1rem;marg-right:lc(-30% - 1rem);float:right;}}@media(m-width: 75rem){{width:45%;marg-left:1rem;marg-right:lc(-30% - 1rem);float:right;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{width:45%;marg-left:1rem;marg-right:lc(-30% - 1rem);float:right;}}</style><div data-embed="loop" data-no-id="2" class="css-ligahs e1a0jkxd0"><style data-emotn="css 1e3dj7m">{display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-webk-flex-directn:row-reverse;-ms-flex-directn:row-reverse;flex-directn:row-reverse;-webk-align-ems:flex-end;-webk-box-align:flex-end;-ms-flex-align:flex-end;align-ems:flex-end;posn:relative;width:100%;marg-bottom:0.9375rem;width:100%;} {visibily:hidn;opacy:0;-webk-transn:visibily 0s .3s,opacy .3s lear;transn:visibily 0s .3s,opacy .3s lear;}</style><div class="align-right size-medium embed e1a0jkxd1 css-1e3dj7m ejku7p04"><style data-emotn="css 5mi43p">{marg-bottom:0.9375rem;--aspect-rat:100%;width:100%;}</style><div class="__rp-ntaer css-5mi43p e6l0f0"><img src=" alt="Image no longer available" tle="Image no longer available" width="100%" height="to" dg="async" fetchPrry="high" /></div></div></div><p data-no-id="3" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">"There is somethg radil about a queer character beg granted eternal life when the world do all n to make sure we don't live one at all." The words haven't left sce <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Dana Aliya Levson" class="body-lk css-nu68ka et3p2gv0">Dana Aliya Levson</a> <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="shared them onle" class="body-lk css-nu68ka et3p2gv0">shared them onle</a> after her breakout role on <em><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Amerin Gods" class="body-lk css-nu68ka et3p2gv0">Amerin Gods</a> </em>aired earlier this week.</p><p data-no-id="4" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Plenty of others have been moved by the words too, and particular, how they tertwe wh Dana's character on the show. "I did not expect my Twter and Instagram to be blowg up the way that they have the past few days," Dana tells . "But 's been a lot of queer fans talkg about how they feel seen by the episo, which has jt been credible." </p><p data-no-id="5" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">'The Rapture of Burng' opens 1951 at the ont sk of the Grand Peack Inn where Toni Rykener enunters the Che god of same-sex love. </p><style data-emotn="css 10klw3m">{height:100%;}</style><div data-embed="stagram" class="embed align-center css-10klw3m ez8lbhw1"><style data-emotn="css 63r9na">{-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-webk-box-pack:center;-ms-flex-pack:center;-webk-jtify-ntent:center;jtify-ntent:center;m-height:10rem;background-lor:#F5F5F5;lor:#000;-webk-flex-directn:lumn;-ms-flex-directn:lumn;flex-directn:lumn;height:100%;marg-bottom:0.9375rem;}</style><div class="css-63r9na ez8lbhw0"><style data-emotn="css 1msakm2">{width:3.125rem;height:3.125rem;}</style><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/;id=lk-out-embed" loadg="lazy" alt="stagram in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1msakm2 ez8lbhw2" /><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href=" aria-label="View full post on Instagram" class="css-0 e1c1bym14">View full post on Instagram</a></div></div><p data-no-id="7" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">After endurg a century of tolerance Ameri, Tu'er Shen's power has been dimished, and he's now on the n om the police. Whout hatn, Toni shelters Tu'er Shen at great personal risk to her own life. In this "ceptively plited scene", Toni quickly "nnects the dots" and realis that she once hooked up wh one of the (now closeted) police men who barged to her n. </p><p data-no-id="8" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0"><em><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Amerin Gods" class="body-lk css-nu68ka et3p2gv0">Amerin Gods</a></em> has <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="embraced queerns before" class="body-lk css-nu68ka et3p2gv0">embraced queerns before</a>, most notably wh Salim and the Djn's romance season one, but to see a trans woman bravely fy the police wh the first five mut of this episo, all wh a '50s settg? That's tly miraculo. </p><p data-no-id="9" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">"It felt like a really important, herently queer episo," says Dana. "And we so rarely see that, pecially genre, pecially on ble or anythg that's not a streamg service." </p><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="10" data-embed="pullquote" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><style data-emotn="css mefxl3">{text-align:center;marg:0rem;paddg-top:0.9375rem;paddg-bottom:0.9375rem;} span::before{background-lor:#E5ADAE;lor:#000;width:5rem;}</style><blockquote class="css-mefxl3 e1pe3zr91"><style data-emotn="css v4i29p">{-webk-transn:width .2s ease--out,background .2s ease--out;transn:width .2s ease--out,background .2s ease--out;ntent:'';background-lor:#000000;lor:#fff;posn:relative;display:le-block;height:0.25rem;width:3rem;}</style><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-v4i29p eagam8p0"></span><style data-emotn="css zggbc2">{font-fay:Montserrat,Helveti,Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:1.625rem;font-weight:900;le-height:1.2;marg:0rem;}@media(max-width: 64rem){{font-size:1.75rem;le-height:1.1;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{font-size:2.25rem;le-height:1.2;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{font-size:2.25rem;le-height:1.2;}} b, strong{font-fay:her;font-weight:bold;} em, i{font-fay:her;font-style:alic;}</style><blockquote class="css-zggbc2 e1pe3zr90">"It felt like a really important, herently queer episo, and we so rarely see that on TV."</blockquote><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-v4i29p eagam8p1"></span></blockquote></div><p data-no-id="11" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">In both this era and the s that follow, The Grand Peack Inn to reprent an important safe space for queer people, much like <em><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Pose" class="body-lk css-nu68ka et3p2gv0">Pose</a></em>'s ballroom, the Pk Palace om <em><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="It's a S" class="body-lk css-nu68ka et3p2gv0">It's a S</a></em> or 28 Barbary Lane <em><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Tal of the Cy" class="body-lk css-nu68ka et3p2gv0">Tal of the Cy</a></em>. The kd of spac are val for our muny real life too, somethg which Dana strongly relat to on a personal level.</p><p data-no-id="12" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">"I grew up beg severely bullied," she rells. "I was assigned male at birth, and clearly a feme kid, growg up. I had no sense of muny, bee I was always ostracised."</p><p data-no-id="13" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">"When I was krgarten first gra, I was always hangg out at the girls' table," Dana ntu. "And then they got to that age where was like, 'Ew, no. You're a boy. You n't hang out wh as well.' And all the boys were bullyg me. So I was jt isolated between the two pol."</p><p data-no-id="14" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">After she me out at a young age, Dana remembers that the first safe space she found was a teen centre lled Levels. "It wasn't an LGBT-specific space, but bee sort of tered to the misf kids, a lot of the kids were queer. And they're actually spirually very siar to the teen centre microsm of The Grand Peack Inn."<br /></p><style data-emotn="css 1736von">{--data-embed-display:flex;-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;clear:both;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;marg-bottom:0.9375rem;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;width:100%;}@media(m-width: 20rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 75rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}} a span{right:1rem;} img{width:to;height:85vh;} a{display:-webk-le-box;display:-webk-le-flex;display:-ms-le-flexbox;display:le-flex;posn:var(--posn, relative);} img:not(.ewcw41w1){display:block;width:100%;height:to;-webk-align-self:flex-start;-ms-flex-em-align:flex-start;align-self:flex-start;}</style><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="15" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><style data-emotn="css uwraif">{width:100%;display:-webk-le-box;display:-webk-le-flex;display:-ms-le-flexbox;display:le-flex;-webk-flex-directn:lumn;-ms-flex-directn:lumn;flex-directn:lumn;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;-webk-box-pack:center;-ms-flex-pack:center;-webk-jtify-ntent:center;jtify-ntent:center;}</style><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="dana aliya levson amerin gods" tle="Dana Aliya Levson Amerin Gods" loadg="lazy" width="1800" height="1200" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><style data-emotn="css swqnqv">@media(m-width: 20rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 75rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}</style><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-ugzt81 e6iqd2">Courty of Starz Entertament</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="16" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">That was the place where Dana first felt "affirmed" her queerns, and for many people watchg <em>Amerin Gods</em> back home, jt seeg the Grand Peack Inn on screen likely serv a siar functn. <br /></p><p data-no-id="17" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">"When I go out to the world, and when I'm teractg wh a cis person, always somewhere the back of my head I'm like, 'Are they clockg that I'm trans?' And if they are, 'What are they thkg about that?'"</p><p data-no-id="18" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Safe spac like Levels and the Grand Peack Inn give queer people a place to go "where that tensn is removed," which n be "so eeg". But this episo, Tu'er Shen do more than jt bls the Inn as a temple dited to queer love. He also giv Toni the gift of immortaly, somethg which, as Dana prevly noted, is tly "radil". </p><p data-no-id="19" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">"When I was filmg that scene wh Daniel Jun where Tu'er Shen grants me eternal life, we filmed his si of the room first. I was gog to the scene beg like, 'Oh, 's like a teaser – exposnal. We're jt gettg out of the way. Jt bangg out. Whatever.'"</p><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="20" data-embed="pullquote" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><blockquote class="css-mefxl3 e1pe3zr91"><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-v4i29p eagam8p0"></span><blockquote class="css-zggbc2 e1pe3zr90">"It was impossible to grow up whout any shame, but the way we -shame is by beg seen."</blockquote><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-v4i29p eagam8p1"></span></blockquote></div><p data-no-id="21" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">But that all changed when Daniel started his monologue. "On the very first take, when he said 'I grant you a long life, and, this will be a temple for me and me, and you and yours,' I had tears. I jt welled up immediately," Dana tells me. </p><p data-no-id="22" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">"To me," she ntu, "that whole ncept is jt radil and revolutnary. To show a queer person who's not a queer y, necsarily, but jt a n-of-the-l queer person beg granted a long and fulfillg life – jt felt like a visceral release the moment that le was set."</p><p data-no-id="23" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">And that visceral sense of release will be faiar to many fans who watched the scen play out back home too. In a world that don't want queer people to live "a long and fulfillg life," shame n build wh, often to a gree that we ourselv don't realise. </p><p data-no-id="24" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">"It was impossible to grow up whout any sense of shame around my sexualy," says Dana. "But the way that we -shame is by beg heard and seen and valued for who we are." A lot of that om seeg our own stori reflected on screen, somethg which <em>Amerin Gods</em> achieved betifully throughout this episo, and perhaps, most notably, a scene where Toni and Salim nont the direct impact of shame. </p><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="25" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="dana aliya levson amerin gods" tle="Dana Aliya Levson Amerin Gods" loadg="lazy" width="1800" height="1200" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-ugzt81 e6iqd2">Courty of Starz Entertament</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="26" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Left to his own vic, Salim hat outsi of a queer party, unsure of whether he should enter. It's not until Toni se him and opens up a nversatn about his shame that Salim is fally able to let go of what's holdg him back, allowg him to tly embrace everythg that "God has to offer". </p><p data-no-id="27" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">"When to -shamg queerns and queer sexualy, nothg do better, my opn, than media, pecially when so much media is foced on monisg . To place that nversatn ont and centre a show like this, reach so many more people than a one-on-one nversatn uld ever have."</p><p data-no-id="28" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Moments like this are genuely healg for queer viewers still stgglg to e to terms wh who they are and where they belong this world. "When I see shows like that, 's healg for me, and I thk 's important to have more and more of this on televisn, to break through that shame that a lot of queer folks have imprted onto our liv."</p><p data-no-id="29" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Historilly, relign has played a pivotal role this cycle of shame, perpetuatg the pa many still endure the LGBTQ+ muny. But this episo of <em>Amerin Gods</em> also remds that the relatnship between divy and queerns n transcend bigotry, tappg to somethg more spirually plex, and even betiful. </p><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="30" data-embed="pullquote" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><blockquote class="css-mefxl3 e1pe3zr91"><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-v4i29p eagam8p0"></span><blockquote class="css-zggbc2 e1pe3zr90">"It was so important to have a visibly trans body be celebrated a way that wasn't objectifyg."</blockquote><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-v4i29p eagam8p1"></span></blockquote></div><p data-no-id="31" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Although she didn't grow up an Orthodox muny, Dana scrib herself as "a very proud trans Jews" who celebrated the culture and ethnic inty that wh beg Jewish. However, wasn't until Dana got sober that she beme more terted her own relig beliefs. </p><p data-no-id="32" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">"Over time, my way wh my fah was actually history, origally. I slowly started to fd out more about Jewish theology by way of Jewish history, and started to fd myself really nnected to . And the thg that was really nnectg to me, is the grey-ns Jewishns." </p><p data-no-id="33" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">"We love batg wh each other," Dana ntu. "We love fightg wh each other, we love disagreeg wh each other. That disagreement, and that tensn between one thg and another thg, for me, really related to my trans inty.</p><p data-no-id="34" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">"I rry my life wh me before I transned. Even though at this pot I basilly move through the world as a woman, and people see me as a woman, I still rry the years I was socialised as a young boy wh me. And to me, 's like, that don't negate my womanhood. And for me to tegrate the tensn between those two thgs to my life, feels dive."</p><div data-embed="stagram" class="embed align-center css-10klw3m ez8lbhw1"><div class="css-63r9na ez8lbhw0"><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/;id=lk-out-embed" loadg="lazy" alt="stagram in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1msakm2 ez8lbhw2" /><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href=" aria-label="View full post on Instagram" class="css-0 e1c1bym14">View full post on Instagram</a></div></div><p data-no-id="36" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Historilly, relign and queerns are far more tertwed than some people might like to adm, as evinced by the existence of Tu'er Shen. "2,000 years ago, the Torah and Hagigah actually regnised six different genrs," Dana tells me. "And sort of intifyg wh that genr limaly wh Jewishns helped me spark that feelg of divy my queerns."</p><p data-no-id="37" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">The ways which <em>Amerin Gods</em> is willg to queer divy is nothg short of "revolutnary," and no other scene ever featured on the show might be as "important" as the y which follows Toni's nversatn wh Salim.</p><p data-no-id="38" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Asi om rare exampl like <em><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Sense8" class="body-lk css-nu68ka et3p2gv0">Sense8</a> </em>and <em><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="It's a S" class="body-lk css-nu68ka et3p2gv0">It's a S</a></em>, few TV shows have succsfully ptured the hedonistic eedom of queer sex whout prrisg the straight, whe cis gaze. But here, <em>Amerin Gods</em> ptur exactly what 's like to move beyond the nstrats of heteronormativy, openg yourself up to new physil experienc that help you redisver yourself and st asi all notns of shame. </p><p data-no-id="39" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Knowg that Toni would play a key role this y scene did make Dana a b apprehensive at first – "It was fely a leap of fah" – but was also one that she was happy to take. "I was like, 'If this nudy is gog to be like anythg they've done on the show before, 's gog to be very empowerg nudy.'<br /></p><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="40" data-embed="pullquote" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><blockquote class="css-mefxl3 e1pe3zr91"><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-v4i29p eagam8p0"></span><blockquote class="css-zggbc2 e1pe3zr90">"For me to tegrate the tensn between those two thgs to my life, feels dive."</blockquote><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-v4i29p eagam8p1"></span></blockquote></div><p data-no-id="41" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">After Dana arrived on set, she and director Tim Southam met to discs Toni's arc. "When we got to that scene, he asked me this way – 's like, sometim, people who aren't trans or aren't queer, put the burn on queer people to expla thgs. And he managed to ask me this way that didn’t make me feel like that at all, like: 'What would you want to see this scene as a queer person? What would you make you feel seen?'"</p><p data-no-id="42" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Dana scrib the nversatn they had as "very open, lovg, warm, and safe," which empowered her to ask that the scene be celebratory stead of objectifyg or voyristic. </p><p data-no-id="43" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">"One of the thgs I said was: if Toni is jt on the swgs naked wh a visibly trans body, and if there's no closp shots, no 'look at this – this is exotic and different', then… If there's none of that, 'll feel like revolutnary TV."</p><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="44" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="dana aliya levson amerin gods" tle="Dana Aliya Levson Amerin Gods" loadg="lazy" width="1800" height="1200" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-ugzt81 e6iqd2">Courty of Starz Entertament</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="45" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">And that's exactly how feels. Queer pa is trsilly part of our history as a muny, and 's important that this is remembered, but far too often, tragedy is prrised over happs. This entire scene, and particular, the precise moment when Toni appears at the y, is betifully triumphant, queer joy personified. And should e as no surprise that Dana felt this on set too. </p><p data-no-id="46" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">"It's funny, the shot of me on the swg where go to slow motn, I remember shootg that. That feelg of openns and joy was jt pletely genue. Bee of that, I found super-healg." </p><p data-no-id="47" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">"I thought was so important to have a visibly trans body that was beg celebrated a way that wasn't objectifyg," Dana rells. "For someone who personally is so ed to beg objectified, pecially datg suatns and stuff like that; to have that space to experience that, to feel celebrated and uplifted a scene that was sexual, was jt credibly healg."</p><p data-no-id="48" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">To make this possible, everyone had to e together wh the same goal, to make the set feel open and safe. "The whole team on the show, om the producer, David Francis, to the wrer, Holly Moyer, to the director, Tim Southam and the timacy ordator as well, Casey Hucki – everyone jt wanted to get right, and was so vted gettg right that the filmg space felt as safe as you would image The Grand Peack Inn felt." </p><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="49" data-embed="pullquote" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><blockquote class="css-mefxl3 e1pe3zr91"><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-v4i29p eagam8p0"></span><blockquote class="css-zggbc2 e1pe3zr90">"To feel celebrated and uplifted a scene that was sexual, was jt credibly healg."</blockquote><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-v4i29p eagam8p1"></span></blockquote></div><p data-no-id="50" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Plenty of people workg this dtry uld learn a lot om all the ways this st and crew approached queer them here, and transns particular. But how do we ensure this be the norm one day? What n be done so that the "revolutnary" storytellg seen here <em>Amerin Gods</em> will no longer feel "revolutnary"?</p><p data-no-id="51" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">"So, first," Dana tells , "We need non-didactic rol whose transns rms who they are but is not <em>the</em> enge of the story. So many people image that our liv revolve around beg trans that they n’t nceptualise existg a story that don't revolve around beg trans." </p><p data-no-id="52" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">"Sendly," Dana ntu, "there are simply not enough trans rol to sta the reers of the actors who are worthy of them. Perd. In the past two years, I've experienced a shift where stg directors will brg trans actors for small rol. 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NEIL GAIMAN ON WRG AMERIN GODS' GAY LOVE STORY

The groundbreakg sequence between two gay Arab men is one of the strongt moments yet on the Starz fantasy seri Amerin Gods (Book) It’s the bold Amerin Gods scene — well, one of them — that has everybody talkg, and for good reason. I thk was the first thg that I’d ever read where I went, you know, there’s an awful lot of this sort of homoeroticism the Arabian Nights.

And at that pot, I wanted a genie Amerin Gods…and, I thk ’s gog to be a gay relatnship… and after that jt kd of wrote self. ) Green, elaboratg, explaed how Fuller’s perspective as a gay man fed wh his own as a straight man to create a five approach as “a betiful romantic story between two people who fd each other, ” he said.

” The scene (directed by Guillermo Navarro) marked Kraish’s first-ever onscreen kiss and sex scene; cintally, marked Abtahi’s send, as the actor played another gay character named Salim on Showtime’s 2005 seri Sleeper Cell. Bryan Fuller wrongly said Dekker “me out as gay” durg an Outft speech earlier this week. “Hero” star Thomas Dekker me out as gay on Instagram on Thursday after beg outed by “Amerin Gods” creator Bryan Fuller.

FANS FUR AS STARZ’S AMERIN GODS CUTS YET ANOTHER CHARACTER – THE FIERY GAY DJN, I

“My sexual orientatn once aga me to qutn this week when a proment gay man ed an awards acceptance speech to ‘out’ me, ” Dekker wrote on Instagram.

OMID ABTAHI’S WIKI (AKA SALIM ON ‘AMERIN GODS’) – IS HE GAY?

Fuller served as a wrer on “Hero” and discsed the way a gay character was “het-washed” durg a speech at Outft earlier this week. “I had a brief stt on ‘Hero’ where the gay character was ‘hetwashed’ after the actor’s management threatened to pull him om the show if he — the character, not the actor — were gay, ” Fuller said.

“The character beme straight and the actor me out as gay.

Dekker had prevly discsed the behd-the-scen plitns surroundg his character’s sexualy, but had never publicly e out as gay. ‘I’m gay. My sexual orientatn once aga me to qutn this week when a proment gay man ed an awards acceptance speech to “out” me.

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NEIL GAIMAN ON WRG AMERIN GODS' GAY LOVE STORY

FANS FUR AS STARZ’S AMERIN GODS CUTS YET ANOTHER CHARACTER – THE FIERY GAY DJN, I

OMID ABTAHI’S WIKI (AKA SALIM ON ‘AMERIN GODS’) – IS HE GAY?

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* GAY CHARACTERS IN AMERICAN GODS

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