‘Ameri’s Only Gay Televisn Network’ Here TV Announc Its First Origal S, ‘From Here on OUT’ – IndieWire

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• GAY PRI: LOGO CHANNEL DEBUTS TODAY
• LOGO CHIEF CHRIS MCCARTHY ON HOW THE NETWORK RETURNED TO ITS GAY ROOTS; WHY BRAVO IS NOT COMPETN
• ‘AMERI’S ONLY GAY TELEVISN NETWORK’ HERE TV ANNOUNC ITS FIRST ORIGAL S, ‘FROM HERE ON OUT’
• R.I.P., GAY TV: A NOT-SO-SAD REALY
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• GAY MOSW · CY GUI
• GAY PRI: LOGO CHANNEL DEBUTS TODAY
• ‘AMERI’S ONLY GAY TELEVISN NETWORK’ HERE TV ANNOUNC ITS FIRST ORIGAL S, ‘FROM HERE ON OUT’

GAY PRI: LOGO CHANNEL DEBUTS TODAY

When to gettg the most out of life, experts Theodore, Jon, Rob and Ronnie tell all wh hot tips on style, stenance, socializg and rponse to a wave of discrimatory anti-LGBTQ+ laws and the divisive 2016 electn, the San Francis Gay Men's Chos embarks on a tour of the Amerin Deep sgle documentary filmmaker Jennifer navigat the ups and downs of the lbian datg PREMIERE NOW STREAMING ON PARAMOUNT+Twelve queens are g together for a send chance at the crown, and there will be two ways to snatch on RuPl's Drag Race All Stars Season 8. “The creria is to feature gay characters primary or leadg rol and not the gimmicky or ual llectn of prsed characters, ic-relief bt iends or serial killers, ” David Btler, then vice print of munitn for MTV Networks, said at the time.

The Big Gay Sketch Show Saturday Night Live breakout Kate McKnon and Fear the Walkg Dead star Colman Domgo starred on this sketch edy show, which ran for three seasons between 2007 and 2010.

And Eric Leonardo didn’t fd lastg love on this 2016 Bachelor clone, but the show did mark one of televisn’s few gay datg petns. Rick & Steve: The Happit Gay Couple All the World This 2007 edy followed a group of gay characters—voiced by the lik of Alan Cummg, Wilson Cz, and Peter Paige—via animated Lego-like figur. Sce lnchg 2005, Logo TV has been a fantastic ep ble channel known for groundbreakg seri like The Big Gay Sketch Show, which lnched the reer of SNL great Kate McKnon.

LOGO CHIEF CHRIS MCCARTHY ON HOW THE NETWORK RETURNED TO ITS GAY ROOTS; WHY BRAVO IS NOT COMPETN

It is the first advertiser-supported mercial televisn channel geared toward the gay muny the Uned Stat. Meet Logo — the latt venture of MTV Networks that ters to a primarily gay dience.

The new ad-supported, basic ble channel mak s but later today about 10 ln hom and, acrdg to Logo’s webse, will feature: “…more than 200 lbian and gay films, an ongog documentary seri, newssts tailored for a gay and lbian dience and qualy origal shows and specials. ” Two of the channel’s upg origal programs clu “Noah’s Arc” (a edy seri about four gay Ain-Amerin guys livg LA) and “Surfer Girls” about a bunch of doctors, realtors and lawyers who love to surf, and who jt happen to be lbians. Later next month, the channel will provi the first-ever TV verage for the GLAAD (Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn) Media, of urse, the lnch of the new channel is not whout ntroversy.

‘AMERI’S ONLY GAY TELEVISN NETWORK’ HERE TV ANNOUNC ITS FIRST ORIGAL S, ‘FROM HERE ON OUT’

Gay activism, solidly tablished our schools, is now spreadg right to the natn's livg rooms.

Logo TV also known as the LOGO is an Amerin digal ble and satelle televisn channel owned by Via Media Networks which has a foc on the US LGTBQ dienc known as the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr (LGBT). This show follows a group of gay iends New York Cy who are workg the fashn dtry. When MTV’s siblg gay work Logo first buted the summer of 2005, few uld have predicted the LGBT human rights movement would be where is today.

Bh had jt been reelected thanks to an aggrsive anti-gay marriage mpaign. The new gay work seemed like a godsend to many the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr muny.

R.I.P., GAY TV: A NOT-SO-SAD REALY

But 2012, after dismal ratgs and few buzzworthy shows, Logo sentially went back to the closet, dchg s gay-centric missn, and promptg Queerty, a popular gay blog, to ask, “Is Logo, Ameri’s first broadst channel for the LGBT muny, gog straight?

GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

There was a lot of excement the gay muny back then.

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Chris McCarthy: Logo has been a part of the gay culture. The gay movement has moved so quickly, ’s probably the fastt movg civil rights movement history.

You thk about Obama and Clton havg their first gay bate on Logo. In 2012 you guys me out wh a statement sayg that Logo will no longer be gay channel, Do you nsir yourself a gay channel now? We are a channel that is born and bread om a gay culture and now that subculture is drivg mass culture.

GAY PRI: LOGO CHANNEL DEBUTS TODAY

We certaly don’t tell anyone else they n’t jo , but we are gay our re. What do you say to crics who say there’s no need for a gay work anymore now that gay culture has been succsfully tegrated to mastream society? It was gog back to our re gay roots.

‘AMERI’S ONLY GAY TELEVISN NETWORK’ HERE TV ANNOUNC ITS FIRST ORIGAL S, ‘FROM HERE ON OUT’

One of the problems that Logo had the begng is the fact that there are so many subsets of the LGBT muny: gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, old, young, urban, ral, whe, black. They’re not gog after gays, they jt happen to get them. We’re targetg gays.

“The [Real] Hoewiv” don’t have any gay characters. You want to e and be gay the whole time, we are here. And if you’re straight and you have a gay sensibily – bee no one should be put to a box — you’re wele too.

As a matter of fact, Logo beme the first-ever mercial TV work the US wh ntent geared towards a gay dience.