Amr and his fiancé, Nicholas, gear up to tie the knot the first elaborate Indian gay weddg their muny, but they nont the difficulti of planng an terracial same-sex marriage. Anisha has found Mr. Right, but her foc on him has put a stra on the relatnship wh her circle of iends. She returns to Miami hop of makg amends, but not everyone is on board.
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- IS IT TIME FOR BRAVO TO CAST ITS FIRST GAY MALE ‘REAL HOEWIFE’?
- BRAVO: FIRST STRAIGHT. THEN GAY. NOW ROCKED BY A REALY SUICI. WHAT’S NEW? HOW MANY? WHO’S PRODUCG?
IS IT TIME FOR BRAVO TO CAST ITS FIRST GAY MALE ‘REAL HOEWIFE’?
Gay men give advice on fashn, groomg, terr sign, food, we and culture to straight men. * bravo gay tv show *
MTV is puttg s money behd the new realy show The Real Friends of WeHo, hopg scratch the ch fans have had wantg a gay equivalent of the popular Bravo anchise The Real show follows a group of six gay iends Wt Hollywood and is scribed as an "unfiltered and hont look at a select group of iends livg, lovg, and pursug their passns the Wt Hollywood muny. And one of our clients—very, very gay—he wanted to create a full nway down his rooftop, makg look like ’s almost an airport nway. People have said that ’s so nice to see gays on TV that are not reprentg jt beg gay.
We’ve had people that are closeted Tennsee msage and say that ’s so spirg to see gays on TV dog heteronormative jobs. It’s jt two gay guys on TV dog landspg and ’s not somethg like Queer Eye that foc on the gay aspect.
BRAVO: FIRST STRAIGHT. THEN GAY. NOW ROCKED BY A REALY SUICI. WHAT’S NEW? HOW MANY? WHO’S PRODUCG?
Queer Eye: Created by David Colls. Wh Ted Allen, Carson Krsley, Kyan Douglas, Thom Filicia. Five gay men try to improve the liv and nfince of straight men by givg them makeovers and advice." data-id="ma * bravo gay tv show *
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Queer Eye For the Straight Guy offers an gen bo, gay men makg over often very slobby straight men. Life tox, and all wh a real human show, which has 5 gay mavens drivg all over uber ol parts of New York Cy and each beg oracl of stylistic expertise, turng the often dowdy everyman to a Adonis of personal style. So when word leaked out May that the Bravo ble work was producg a new datg-themed realy seri about a gay bachelor choosg the perfect boyiend om among 15 eligible men, sound like simply a queer take on a preexistg a move worthy of Joe Millnaire, Boy Meets Boy tak the surprise factor one step further, bee neher the "leadg man" nor his bt gal pal nor all of the 15 potential boyiends -- lled "mat" -- know that sprkled among them are some heterosexual nttants.
Inial reactn has been polarized, wh one overridg qutn: Will this be a groundbreakg potrayal of gay romance on televisn or a sordid example of settg up gays as the butt of one big, gradg prank?
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"In some ways, [Boy Meets Boy] has the potential to kd of subvert the whole notn of how people nceive of lbians and gay men, " observed Stephen Tropiano, thor of The Prime Time Closet: A History of Gays and Lbians on TV, who se the show as a natural outgrowth of gays' prence televisn. What driv an obvly attractive, succsful gay man to subject himself to what some nsir a very wi-reachg vio datg service? " That said, Jam wanted to challenge himself, better unrstand what he wants a relatnship, and affirm his valu as a morn gay man.
He also wants Ameri to see that the ritur on most scripted televisn shows don't accurately reprent gay culture. "It sounds more like How to Date a Htler, bee the motive [of the nttants] is to be emotnally and physilly attractive to the gay guy, " observ Brad Gooch, thor of Datg the Greek Gods.
"Confg the other 15 sgl one hoe sounds like the makgs of a gay porn vio, not Derek Hartley, who dispens relatnship advice at 's "Fantasy Island. " This dynamic, so ditive of the relatnships of many gay men and their straight women iends, should help provi a hook for straight viewers while givg the show some affirms his iend's importance.
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" explas openly gay executive producer Douglas Ross, who created the show wh Tom Campbell, his productn partner at Evolutn Film & Tape.
) "We very specifilly signed this show to challenge the viewer's prenceived notns about what means to be gay and to be straight.
"While this kissg le protected the straight nttants om beg asked to put out, also rais the qutn of whether gay men know how to urt one another whout sex beg volved. "The natural assumptn ncerng the straight twist is that Jam or the other gay nttants will be able to spot the imposters an stant. " In Boy Meets Boy, the producers promise, the mystil homosexual power known as gaydar fails, and some lic plitns ensue.
Photo Illtratn by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty/NBC UniversalEvery queer viewer nodd unison when Real Hoewiv of Beverly Hills' newbie Diana Jenks, meetg her stmat on mera for the first time the Season 12 premiere, nfsed that she is a gay man trapped si a woman's body. And on a show that clus veterans Lisa Rna and Eryka Jayne, Jenks is hardly the only one at the table whose personaly channels bold queerns or whose style might dabble * bravo gay tv show *
"If were jt a gay datg show, for sure we'd get a lot of gay viewers, probably not that many straight veiwers, [and] some looky-loos, " Ross says. "But we felt by puttg [the twist] , we would get a much broar dience and have a chance to explore the soclogil issu which are really important to as gay producers.
" Adds Stt Seom of the media watchdog anizatn Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn: "Frankly, only a realy show uld create a closet for straight men. "Sce gay imag on realy TV have beg somethg of a stale staple -- lately failg to match the excement generated by, say, Pedro Zamora and Richard Hatch -- 's promisg that Boy Meets Boy promis to shake up ncepts of sexualy.