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COMEDIAN JOSH THOMAS DISCS HOMOPHOBIA THE GAY MUNY
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After breakg out his native Atralia wh the semi-tobgraphil edy Please Like Me, a dryly funny portra of a newly out gay twentysomethg which ran for four seasons, Josh Thomas lnched his first Amerin seri earlier this year: Freeform's crilly acclaimed half-hour, Everythg's Gonna Be Okay. In terms of your relatnship the show and drawg out: On Please Like Me, you had var romanc, but this feels like 's more of a longer-term relatnship that you are explorg and the stggl that go to that, particularly for two gay men. When Please Like Me was out, I thk was tagged by a lot of people as a pictn of gay life that you didn't see a lot, and Everythg's Gonna Be Okay has that s own element, too.
How do you perceive gay stori on TV right now: The kds that you want to tell, vers the kds that are out the world? We're at a good place where there's a lot of different typ of gay stori, which is a really excg place to be at bee means you n jt tell the gay story you want. Whereas back when Please Like Me [me out], which I gus was eight years ago, or maybe a b earlier when we started makg that show, there were so few gay stori that the amount of prsure and the amount of nversatn that was about this one gay story was really big.
There was a nversatn about, "Is this the right kd of gay to put on TV? I hated when people would talk about the fact that my character was a different type of gay than the gays on other TV shows and why that's more worthy. The Atralian edian Josh Thomas was at the olst gay bar New York, batg how much to say about a breakup.
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’ ” On “Please Like Me, ” which he played a gay twentysomethg also named Josh, he rtaged the breakup almost word for wh many ntemporary edians, mg unpleasant experienc for humor—even tragic on—is send nature to Thomas. He began velopg “Please Like Me” nsultatn wh the Atralian Broadstg Corporatn, which eventually missned a first then, he was his early twenti, and jt begng to acknowledge the fact that he was gay.
As part of this reckong, Thomas rewrote the pilot of “Please Like Me, ” changg the sexualy of his character—and the work found self posssn of a s wh a gay lead.