The Other Half: Vahid Gold on makg a gay edy for Dave

Contents:

• GROUNDBREAKG GAY S ON DAVE PROV EDY DON’T NEED TO PUNCH DOWN, SAYS ACTOR VAHID GOLD
• HAPPY FATHER’S DAY TO MCH AND CAM, TWO GAY TV DADS WHO HELPED CHANGE AMERI
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
• CRAFTG A ROM-COM THAT’S TE TO 21ST-CENTURY GAY LIFE

GROUNDBREAKG GAY S ON DAVE PROV EDY DON’T NEED TO PUNCH DOWN, SAYS ACTOR VAHID GOLD

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HAPPY FATHER’S DAY TO MCH AND CAM, TWO GAY TV DADS WHO HELPED CHANGE AMERI

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JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

When Brish-Iranian actor Vahid Gold read the script for Dave’s gay edy pilot s The Other Half, he knew was different to anythg he had read before. As a 20-somethg gay man not out to his fay, Navid gets the chance to leave his fay home to go to Bristol wh his bt iend Srlet (Eve Delaney). I’ve never read a script where the ma protagonist was half-Iranian and half-Welsh and gay.

Navid jos a small but growg pool of queer Iranian characters on screen, alongsi the lik of Rahim, a gay Iranian man Disney+ edy drama Love, Victor. “The fact that he is half-Iranian and gay and half-Welsh is jt a backdrop.

GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

This Father’s Day, let’s take a moment to appreciate Mch and Cam, the gay dads of the s Morn Fay, played by Jse Tyler Fergon and Eric Stontreet. But the gay dads almost didn’t make to air. A gay lleague even enuraged them to turn Mch and Cam to mor background characters to avoid srg away viewers.

It wasn’t an unreasonable ncern at the time: Though gay characters had grown more proment on televisn the early 2000s, upl were ls mon and tend to only appear on ble shows. It was clear that many Amerins were still eply unfortable wh the ia of treatg gay upl as equals. Not only that, but viewers were particularly taken by the gay uple.

That was thanks to a clever strategy: In orr to ease nservative viewers to watchg, the wrers liberately foced early storyl on Mch and Cam’s parentg, rather than on any gay issu.

CRAFTG A ROM-COM THAT’S TE TO 21ST-CENTURY GAY LIFE

Plots tend to be about takg their dghter to dayre and a pediatrician, or buyg diapers—thgs that would be relatable to gay or straight dienc. The issue of physil affectn beme a particular stickg pot among gay viewers. Proposn 8 remaed the law California, where the show was set, and through a strange seri of polil mov, the ban on gay marriage was fend by then-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Not a bad legacy for two gay dads who nearly never ma to air.