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Contents:
- SPOTIFY’S ‘GAY PRI & PREJUDICE’ MARRI A BELOVED CLASSIC WH QUEER STORI AND SCRIPTED FICTN PODSTS
- GAY PRI (AND PREJUDICE)
- 'GAY PRI & PREJUDICE' TRAILER: JSE TYLER FERGON PREVIEWS NEW JANE ATEN ADAPTATN (EXCLIVE)
- A GAY ADAPTATN OF PRI AND PREJUDICE, SET ON FIRE ISLAND, IS G. Y, YOU READ THAT RRECTLY
- JANE ATEN MEETS MARRIAGE EQUALY GAY PRI & PREJUDICE PODST
SPOTIFY’S ‘GAY PRI & PREJUDICE’ MARRI A BELOVED CLASSIC WH QUEER STORI AND SCRIPTED FICTN PODSTS
Short-form streamg platform Quibi has missned a gay, morn adaptatn of Jane Aten's Pri and Prejudice set on Fire Island. * pride and prejudice gay version *
Jane Aten ’s Pri and Prejudice gets transported to the Amerin South “Before the Fall,” a morn, gay-themed “reimagg” of the lerary classic.HuffPost got an exclive first look at the film, which hs iTun, Amazon and other streamg servic May 30, via the featurette above. “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. “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.”Don’t miss the latt (and greatt) LGBTQ entertament! 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.
GAY PRI (AND PREJUDICE)
A new retellg of Pri & Prejudice om Jse Tyler Fergon, Jt Mika, and Zackary Grady is the gay adaptatn we've been wag for. * pride and prejudice gay version *
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' TRAILER: JSE TYLER FERGON PREVIEWS NEW JANE ATEN ADAPTATN (EXCLIVE)
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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 is part of a more recent trend embracg celebratory, over-the-top, and even satiril pictns of queer life and muny mastream media.
A GAY ADAPTATN OF PRI AND PREJUDICE, SET ON FIRE ISLAND, IS G. Y, YOU READ THAT RRECTLY
The first time Joel Kim Booster vatned on New York's Fire Island wh his iend, edian Bowen Yang, he brought wh him Jane Aten's Pri and Prejudice as a beach read. Over the years, he'd often joke wh iends about makg a gay versn of the novel. Today Booster is the wrer and star of Hulu's Fire Island, a queer, Asian rom based on Aten's classic, set the tular gay vatn spot. Booster talks wh gut host Elise Hu about how the film honors his queer iendships, subverts hetero rom norms, and tells a personal story that feels universal. You n follow on Twter @NPRItsBeenAM and email at * pride and prejudice gay version *
The gays serve a romp. Listen on the tale of Ben and Darcy the latt episos of Gay Pri & Prejudice every Wednday throughout June. None other than Osr Wil vised the gay-iendly vatn spot, specifilly Cherry Grove, durg his lecture tour of 1882.
“It’s like a gay Disney World, ” he tells , “fun for the whole fay”—except that his fn of fay is not the tradnal one. ” What Noah don’t is that the plot of Fire Island is based on Aten’s novel of 1813, though he told Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, hosts of the reigng gay podst Las Culturistas, who are also his stars Fire Island, that “we’ve got our gay Darcy! “It wasn’t until I went to Fire Island for the first time that I actually brought the book wh me to read for the first time, and I was so stck by how relevant actually felt to my experience … navigatg the weird class systems that gay men created for themselv.
JANE ATEN MEETS MARRIAGE EQUALY GAY PRI & PREJUDICE PODST
What do Booster mean by “weird class systems, ” and how do he reprent his journey as an openly gay Asian-Amerin man? Conrad Riora ( the role of Will) is the gay Darcy to Noah’s Elizabeth, and the name play is gen as rears of Pri and Prejudice learn, late the novel, that Darcy’s Christian name is Fzwilliam. ” As the new “gay Darcy, ” Riora plays Will nvcgly as ede and aloof, the perfect embodiment of what Aten scribed as Darcy’s “unsocial [and]tacurn disposn.
Fire Island is not the first gay film to reimage Aten’s most popular romance. 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.