In an terview wh Digal Trends, the creator and st of Gay Pri & Prejudice discs updatg the classic novel to a narrative podst wh an LGBTQ twist.
Contents:
- '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
- JANE ATEN MEETS MARRIAGE EQUALY GAY PRI & PREJUDICE PODST
- GAY PRI & PREJUDICE CREATORS ON UPDATG JANE ATEN FOR THE PODST AGE
- A ROMANTIC COMEDY EVENT: GAY PRIDE & PREJUDICE (JESSE TYLER FERGUSON, VELLA LOVELL, BLAKE LEE)
- EVERYTHG WE KNOW ABOUT FIRE ISLAND, A NEW GAY PRI AND PREJUDICE ADAPTATN
'GAY PRI & PREJUDICE' TRAILER: JSE TYLER FERGON PREVIEWS NEW JANE ATEN ADAPTATN (EXCLIVE)
A new retellg of Pri & Prejudice om Jse Tyler Fergon, Jt Mika, and Zackary Grady is the gay adaptatn we've been wag for. * cast of gay pride and prejudice *
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.
SPOTIFY’S ‘GAY PRI & PREJUDICE’ MARRI A BELOVED CLASSIC WH QUEER STORI AND SCRIPTED FICTN PODSTS
“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. 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.
JANE ATEN MEETS MARRIAGE EQUALY GAY PRI & PREJUDICE PODST
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.
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. “Gay Pri & Prejudice tak place om June 2015 to June 2016, so is a perd piece, ” Zackary told For the Rerd.
GAY PRI & PREJUDICE CREATORS ON UPDATG JANE ATEN FOR THE PODST AGE
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.
A ROMANTIC COMEDY EVENT: GAY PRIDE & PREJUDICE (JESSE TYLER FERGUSON, VELLA LOVELL, BLAKE LEE)
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.
EVERYTHG WE KNOW ABOUT FIRE ISLAND, A NEW GAY PRI AND PREJUDICE ADAPTATN
Listen on the tale of Ben and Darcy the latt episos of Gay Pri & Prejudice every Wednday throughout June. Wh the succs of related shows like Bridgerton and the rise of gay romantic edi, feels like the right moment for Pri & Prejudice, the grandmother of all rom-s, to get a h update for LGBTQ+ 's jt what we're gettg wh Gay Pri & Prejudice, a new Spotify Origal scripted podst. Hodg passg and the unexpected arrival of gay celebry Carlos Bgley (Munoz) draws them to a lol nightclub, where Ben meets Bgley's snobbish iend Darcy Williams (Peet), a newly out NFL star.
"Settg this story Boston, wh the gay hubs of New York and Provcetown nearby, was a reful choice on Grady's part. "I love gay bars smaller ci or small towns bee I actually fd them more welg sometim than you do New York Cy gay bars. "Beyond the obv Pri and prejudice of all, the them of Aten's work tersect wh morn gay culture ways that n be both thoughtful and funny.
"Ronald Peet's Darcy is sure to draw a strong reactn when he snubs Ben for beg "too femme, " a giant red flag for anyone who's ed gay datg apps. "Rather than study prev versns of Darcy as the romantic hero, Peet drew on recent headl about gay profsnal athlet and Black public figur like edian Jerrod Carmichael to explore why Darcy might be so closed off at the begng of the seri.