The Comedy Duo Behd ‘Very Gay Pat’ Commted to a B So Hard That They’re Now Real Muralists – PRINT Magaze

Contents:

• MEET THE COMEDY PATG DUO BEHD VERY GAY PAT
• MEET THE COLORFUL AND DYNAMIC DUO BEHD VERY GAY PAT
• THE COMEDY DUO BEHD ‘VERY GAY PAT’ COMMTED TO A B SO HARD THAT THEY’RE NOW REAL MURALISTS
• YOU N NOW BUY RED PAT MA OM REAL BLOOD DONATED BY GAY MEN
• YOU N BUY PAT MA OM THE BLOOD OF GAY MEN
• JD STARON LNCH COLLECTN WH VERY GAY PAT
• DOZIER & GAY PAT CO
• VERY GAY PAT: BRGG JOY TO HOM THROUGH ART AND COMEDY
• MEET THE DUO BEHD THE VERY BRIGHT AND VERY FUN VERYGAYPAT
• GAY COMPANY
• THE BEST MUNICH GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MUNICH
• GAY, GA PATG

MEET THE COMEDY PATG DUO BEHD VERY GAY PAT

I don’t ordarily ask the creativ I terview which sign trends are gay. But when talkg to Nicholas Scheppard and Jenson T, Founrs, Co-Owners, and edians who pat at Very Gay Pat, feels like the right thg to do. Gay as hell.

Nicholas and Jenson didn’t totally agree there, but they did say the Easter bunny is a ragg homo.

MEET THE COLORFUL AND DYNAMIC DUO BEHD VERY GAY PAT

But that’s jt one part of what Very Gay Pat do—they’re part paters-for-hire and part edy duo. Tongue--cheek ptns highlight their spiratn (“ancient gay n ed elaborate ruals to help the er digt dairy well to their 50’s”) or give a very gay history lson (“The three l this mural reprent the three l a gay character was legally allowed to say any film om the early 2000s”).

THE COMEDY DUO BEHD ‘VERY GAY PAT’ COMMTED TO A B SO HARD THAT THEY’RE NOW REAL MURALISTS

Their prev work has been well-received at edy or stand-up shows, but the ncept for two gay men who pat thgs a very gay way is nothg the terr sign and art world has really ever seen before. And while Very Gay Pat is supposed to make you lgh, Nicholas and Jenson put ser thought to this brand they have created. “I remember growg up and at a time when sayg thgs were gay was ed rogatorily, ” Nicholas explaed.

“Gay films are always very tense, like about AIDS, or there’s Queer Eye.

But you don’t get to see this down-to-earth view of gay people pokg fun of themselv. Very Gay Pat me about the panmic, and they’ve got a solid procs down for creatg murals and piec people’s hom. The dream is for Very Gay Pat to expand to a Very Gay World—one where Nicholas and Jenson show what ’s like when the hierarchy gets flipped, and gay people bee the masters and novators of their worlds.

YOU N NOW BUY RED PAT MA OM REAL BLOOD DONATED BY GAY MEN

“What a dream to grow up on the playground and be like, ‘Oh no, I’m not gay, I’d never want to do that, ’ and then now as an adult to create this fantasy world where we’re like, ‘Are you straight? If you aren’t already hip to Very Gay Pat, now’s the time to smarten up. Found July 2020 by Los Angel-based edians Nicholas Scheppard and Jenson T, Very Gay Pat eye-tchg lors, clean-led shap, and lots of tongue--cheek humor to create vibrant pat murals.

YOU N BUY PAT MA OM THE BLOOD OF GAY MEN

As they say: “Turn your walls gay wh pat. Learn more about the super fun and talented duo behd Very Gay Pat, om how they got started to their sign procs.

“We like to make up fun historil facts about gay thgs—like a edic revisnist gay history. “This felt like more of a Bhs-spired riff on the typil gay rabow, ” Nicholas explas. “Very Gay Pat giv a new way to foc on performance art that still feels nostalgic, ” Jenson says.

JD STARON LNCH COLLECTN WH VERY GAY PAT

At least, that’s if you ask Nicholas Scheppard and Jenson T, the edian-muralist hybrids of Very Gay Pat. Smash cut to prent-day Los Angel, where Very Gay Pat is a fully-fledged mural pany takg on imprsive, high-profile projects like RuPl’s black-and-whe-striped dg room and Trixie Mattel’s Trixie Motel Palm Sprgs. ” They exprs this through their brand big and small ways, om the tagle on their webse (“We pat thgs a way that is very gay”), to their homepage button labeled “Homo” stead of “Home, ” to their promotnal materials overtly parodyg the form of ntent that morn-day artists create.

In many ways, Very Gay Pat is a long-form, drawn-out edy sketch that Scheppard and T have mted to so hard that the muralist characters they’ve veloped and play are now actual, real-life muralists. “I very much thk of Very Gay Pat as a character that I play, ” reflected T.

“We created the two muralists that play this way, this satiril and irreverent and absurd voice around beg gay.

DOZIER & GAY PAT CO

Startg om the name Very Gay Pat, ’s obv that the cx of the brand’s edy is their over-emphasis on Scheppard and T beg gay. This ia stemmed om the duo fdg ridiculo how society will view someone’s intifitn as gay as makg whatever they do herently special and signifint. “We uldn’t earntly be like, It is valuable and amazg and good enough that I’m jt gay!

That ia was hysteril— like, very few of the stars of Queer Eye have an amazg proficiency the thg they’re supposed to be good at— ’s jt them beg gay that mak amazg. I always thought that was so funny, like medcry wh the gay label on sudnly mak so sparkly.

But light of the recent, buildg onslght of laws targetg the LGBTQIA+ muny and public displays of homophobic and transphobic behavr, Scheppard adms thgs have changed a b when to celebratg somethg or someone simply for beg gay. “I thk now, there’s more room for that earnt celebratn of beg gay as beg this spectacular thg. “When we were ls at risk, that seemed so stupid, bee obvly, the next step is that gay people are jt like everyone else.

VERY GAY PAT: BRGG JOY TO HOM THROUGH ART AND COMEDY

The over-emphasis on the celebratn of gayns feels dumb until ’s like, Oh sh, no, we actually really need to be celebratg. As Very Gay Pat ntu to navigate the growth of a brand whose very existence is a b, one thg is certa: they will rema very gay.

In 2018, a creative team prted T-shirts wh k ma om the blood of gay men.

The policy was updated 2015, then aga 2020, but there are still limatns on whether gay and bisexual men n donate blood. Today, would seem that the FDA nsirs a gay man a bigger threat to the blood supply than a straight man who was treated for chlamydia or genal herp.

MEET THE DUO BEHD THE VERY BRIGHT AND VERY FUN VERYGAYPAT

The Gay Blood Collectn clus a founta pen, screen prtg k, acrylic pat, spray pat, and a marker, all the same ep red. [Image: Mother Goods]Rangg om $30 to $200 apiece, the suppli are signed to be prott tools for people to prt shirts, pat prott signs, and/or sign petns to fight back agast the FDA’s homophobic and outdated polici.

GAY COMPANY

”[Image: Mother Goods]Wh the Gay Blood Collectn, however, the ia transcends lor. ”It’s worth notg that the Gay Blood Collectn has lnched the same year that the Amerin Red Cross clared s worst blood shortage over a .

The pany Mother put together a pat llectn ma om, what they claim, is the real blood of gay men.

THE BEST MUNICH GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MUNICH

The Gay Blood Collectn clus the llectn of ks and pats ma om the blood of gay Mother employe, acrdg to the webse. For purchase, Gay Blood Acrylic Pat, Gay Blood Founta Pen, Gay Blood Screen Prtg Ink, Gay Blood Pat Pen, and Gay Blood Spray Pat.

The webse says ’s 100% safe to e and ma wh the blood of gay men. The reason why the pany cid to make pat om the blood of gay men, they thk ’s msed up that the FDA troduced a guile 1983 that ‘effectively banned men who have sex wh men om donatg blood’.

You n purchase Gay Blood, here. From gay paters like Leonardo da Vci and Andy Warhol to bisexuals like Frida Kahlo and trans artists like Lili Elbe and Jefey Cathere Jon, the rabow of great LGBTQ+ paters stretch around the world. The new llectn of gs signed llaboratn wh Nicholas Scheppard and Jenson T, the talented LA-based uple and edic duo behd Very Gay Pat.

GAY, GA PATG

The two cid to liven thgs up, spe never havg picked up a bsh, they pated themselv a retro-mod mural… Friends saw the mural and asked if they uld pat one for them… and then iends of iends… next thg they know they’re patg for small bs, for signers like Kelly Wearstler, for celebri like Jason Mraz, they go viral and brand themselv as Very Gay Pat wh a stated missn of turng your walls gay.

Their brand and murals are playful and energetic, lighthearted— and, of urse, Very Gay. The team fell love wh their uniquely Very Gay athetic: their signs, ftly bg retro motifs, geometric shap, bold sweepg l, and landsp, manage to be both clean and playful—so wh JD Staron’s technil expertise and visn, they translated them to a betiful llectn of gs that are sure to brg lor, levy, playfulns and unbridled joy to any settg.

The Collaboratn ntas two parts for JD Staron and Very Gay Pat. The first part nsists of four signs, named for the hairstyl of famo female gay ins: Farrah (Fawcett), Rachel (om Friends), Ta (Turner), and Wtour (Anna). This seri is hand-tufted New Zealand Wool wh blend wool and tencel accents and available to nsumers a limed number of standard lors and siz through the Very Gay Pat webse.