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Contents:
- '90 DAY FIANCé': ARMANDO TELLS HIS PARENTS HE'S GAY AND MOVG TO BE WH KENH
- WHY 90 DAY FIANCE'S ARMANDO IS NERVO ABOUT BEG PART OF THE FRANCHISE'S FIRST MALE GAY COUPLE
- 'I CARRY YOU WH ME': TELLS A GAY COUPLE'S LOVE STORY
'90 DAY FIANCé': ARMANDO TELLS HIS PARENTS HE'S GAY AND MOVG TO BE WH KENH
Armando, 31, prevly explaed that he tried to tell his parents he was gay three years ago, but that they did not accept and that he's been aaid to brg up sce. Armando's parents told TLC meras that as parents and bee of their pri as Mexins, they didn't see the realy, which is that their son is gay. The uple is makg history as the first male gay uple on the massively popular 90 Day Fiancé anchise.
"Watch the vio below for more:'90 Day Fiancé': Kenh and Armando on Beg the Franchise’s First Male Gay Couple (Exclive) RELATED CONTENT:. '90 Day Fiancé': Kenh and Armando on Beg First Male Gay Couple. Armando spoke to Entertament Tonight about the upg season and his rervatns about appearg on TLC as a gay man.
Okay, so he did first tell his parents that he was part of a documentary orr to get them volved, but speakg about the cisn to be part of the 90 Day Fiance world, Kenh explaed that part of gettg up close and personal is to mystify and highlight the differenc and siari between gay upl and heterosexual upl. Armando and Kenh were the first male gay uple featured on the TLC anchise.
WHY 90 DAY FIANCE'S ARMANDO IS NERVO ABOUT BEG PART OF THE FRANCHISE'S FIRST MALE GAY COUPLE
In PEOPLE's exclive sneak peek at Sunday's episo of 90 Day Bar All on disvery+, Armando and Kenh — the first male gay uple featured on the TLC anchise — s down for a chat wh Armando's mother and sister, as well as host Shn Robson. Armando and Kenh, 57, met through a gay fathers support group and immediately h off. The pair beme fan favor durg last year's season of 90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way, durg which they navigated Armando g out as gay to his mom and the stggl of tryg to secure a marriage license Mexi.
Wh the ntext of the signifint role of parental support g out and the rpons of other Latx straight characters to their queer children on other televisn shows, Armando Salazar’s flawed, fearful, yet supportive rponse and emotnal stggle dispts machismo and the racialized homophobia often picted across a racially diverse ensemble st featurg queer Latos.
The flhed out storyl of ntrastg rpons by Lato TV parents to their gay sons dispts stereotypil pictns of (Lato) masculy light of the vulnerable risks Victor Salazar, a Lato gay male, take g out and his father. In “Gay Gay, ” the episo alternat between Isabel, ncerned wh his hband’s lack of vulnerabily, seekg unsel om her Catholic prit, and Armando seekg unsel regardg how to exprs support for his son durg this difficult time.
'I CARRY YOU WH ME': TELLS A GAY COUPLE'S LOVE STORY
Their distct stggl wh how to exprs support for their gay son adds tensn to their relatnship and “Table for Four, ” be a ntent pot regardg the potential for their renciliatn. If fan fictn, tumblr, and social media posts regardg gay teen reprentatn have anythg to say about , Armando Salazar is the kd of father/parent gay teens dream of. Wrers and producers take great re broachg the difficult subject of a teenage cisman of lor’s life after he begs livg as a gay man a relatnship wh a whe gay peer.
Fan fictn wrers may have prumed his homo-antagonism bee of how season one episo “Sweet Sixteen, ” he stggled wh his own father’s rponse to Victor’s baby brother Adrian playg wh girl’s toys and Benji kissg his then boyiend at Victor’s birthday party.
In the historic evolutn of Latx LGBT characters’ blogil fay story arcs and narrativ, Armando Salazar’s story, like One Day at a Time’s Penelope, dispts the racialized homophobia of earlier reprentatns implicly showsed the evolutn of Ricky Santiago on My So-Called Life (ABC 1994-95), and Carlos Torr on Grey’s Anatomy. (ABC, 2006-2014) Love, Victor, for s classic teen dramedy angst, picts a gay workg-class Lato male’s stggle choosg to be out and who his gayns and/our g out procs needs to please.