In this unflchgly hont documentary and memoir, edian Josh Thomas asks the big qutn: how do I be gay? Irreverent but rmative, Josh Thomas speaks to a party of hilar and experienced queer storytellers as they share te tal and advice on how to be gay....
Contents:
- COMEDIAN JOSH THOMAS DISCS HOMOPHOBIA THE GAY MUNY
- IS JOSH THOMAS'S SHOW TOO GAY FOR ABC1?
- JOSH THOMAS ON 'HOW TO BE GAY'
- HOW TO BE GAY WH JOSH THOMAS
COMEDIAN JOSH THOMAS DISCS HOMOPHOBIA THE GAY MUNY
‘Please Like Me’ Atralian-born 28-year-old gay edian Josh Thomas is currently releasg the third season of the (mostly) self-wrten dramedy “Please Like Me,” airg on ABC’s Pivot TV the U.S., Canada and Atralia. The succs of the show n be measured the three awards has received addn to numero nomatns. Starrg * is josh thomas gay *
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.
IS JOSH THOMAS'S SHOW TOO GAY FOR ABC1?
IS Please Like Me too gay? That is what Josh Thomas is askg as he prepar for the but of his new TV edy. * is josh thomas gay *
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.
JOSH THOMAS ON 'HOW TO BE GAY'
The edian and shownner’s new podst, How To Be Gay, marri terviews wh personal stori. But he saved his ‘last secret’ for * is josh thomas gay *
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?
HOW TO BE GAY WH JOSH THOMAS
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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. For example: "Dad, I'm gay.
" When I told my dad I was gay, I did by text msage. He's gay and mp as f.... "It wasn't until I was 19 that I knew I was gay.
Even when I found out, at 16, that my brother was gay, didn't make me thk about myself.