Logo Chief Chris McCarthy on How the Network Returned to Its Gay Roots; Why Bravo Is Not Competn - TheWrap

Contents:

• GAY AND LGBT+ LOGOS
• LOGO CHIEF CHRIS MCCARTHY ON HOW THE NETWORK RETURNED TO ITS GAY ROOTS; WHY BRAVO IS NOT COMPETN
• HOW CANADA’S GAY NETWORK RO TO THE RCUE OF LOGO’S DTLA ENSEMBLE DRAMA
• 'RUPL'S DRAG RACE' IS LEAVG TV'S BIGGT GAY NETWORK -- NOW WHAT?
• GAY CHANNEL LOGO LNCH WEEKLY NEWSST
• ARE WOMEN TO BLAME FOR GAY NETWORK LOGO STRAIGHTENG UP?
• LOGO NETWORK UNVEILS 'BIG GAY SKETCH SHOW'
• THE FOTTEN GAY CABLE NETWORK THAT CHANGED LGBTQ HISTORY
• R.I.P., GAY TV: A NOT-SO-SAD REALY
• MTV BUTS 'LOGO' BLE CHANNEL TARGETG GAY MARKET
• LOGO FOR A GAY PORN WEBSE
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS KEV MAXEN BE FIRST PROFSNAL MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE

GAY AND LGBT+ LOGOS

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LOGO CHIEF CHRIS MCCARTHY ON HOW THE NETWORK RETURNED TO ITS GAY ROOTS; WHY BRAVO IS NOT COMPETN

Get dozens of profsnal, ctom gay logo optns om our muny of eelance signers, and experience next-level creative directn. When MTV’s siblg gay work Logo first buted the summer of 2005, few uld have predicted the LGBT human rights movement would be where is only state to legalize same sex marriage was Massachetts, and GOP Print Gee W.

The new gay work seemed like a godsend to many the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr 2012, after dismal ratgs and few buzzworthy shows, Logo sentially went back to the closet, dchg s gay-centric missn, and promptg Queerty, a popular gay blog, to ask, “Is Logo, Ameri’s first broadst channel for the LGBT muny, gog straight?

HOW CANADA’S GAY NETWORK RO TO THE RCUE OF LOGO’S DTLA ENSEMBLE DRAMA

The gay movement has moved so quickly, ’s probably the fastt movg civil rights movement history.

It’s that energy and that creativy that we want to brg back to 2012 you guys me out wh a statement sayg that Logo will no longer be gay channel, Do you nsir yourself a gay channel now? We are a channel that is born and bread om a gay culture and now that subculture is drivg mass culture. That was our biggt h so that’s where we stayed and we doubled down that space and that’s how we got to [the upg] “Cucumber” and “Banana” which is very much the voice of Vio: Amy Poehler and Ta Fey Are Comg to ‘RuPl’s Drag Race’ … Sorta (Exclive)What do you say to crics who say there’s no need for a gay work anymore now that gay culture has been succsfully tegrated to mastream society?

It was gog back to our re gay of the problems that Logo had the begng is the fact that there are so many subsets of the LGBT muny: gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, old, young, urban, ral, whe, black.

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And if you’re straight and you have a gay sensibily – bee no one should be put to a box — you’re wele too. Related stori om TheWrap:Ratgs: ABC's 'Forever' Free-falls 18 Percent From Prr WeekJon Stewart 'Didn't Realize That People Indiana Could Not Practice Relign' (Vio)Indiana Pizzeria's Donatns Reach Whoppg $842, 387 Wake of Anti-Gay Marriage BacklashArnold Schwarzenegger Blasts Indiana 'Relig Freedom' Law: 'As a Republin, I'm Fur'. When MTV’s siblg gay work Logo first buted the summer of 2005, few uld have predicted the LGBT human rights movement would be where is today.

The new gay work seemed like a godsend to many the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr muny. But 2012, after dismal ratgs and few buzzworthy shows, Logo sentially went back to the closet, dchg s gay-centric missn, and promptg Queerty, a popular gay blog, to ask, “Is Logo, Ameri’s first broadst channel for the LGBT muny, gog straight?

GAY CHANNEL LOGO LNCH WEEKLY NEWSST

In 2012 you guys me out wh a statement sayg that Logo will no longer be gay channel, Do you nsir yourself a gay channel now? What do you say to crics who say there’s no need for a gay work anymore now that gay culture has been succsfully tegrated to mastream society? One of the problems that Logo had the begng is the fact that there are so many subsets of the LGBT muny: gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, old, young, urban, ral, whe, black.

TORONTO – When the CRTC origally licensed OUTtv as Pri Visn 2001 to bee the world’s first gay TV work, the Canadian TV regulator probably did not envisage DTLA, produced by L Word executive producer Larry Kennar, on TV screens here.

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Nor, we n assume, did the CRTC, which emed Pri Visn a mt-rry ble channel, ever envisage a day when domtic rriers like Shaw Cable wtern Canada would ever give the gay-themed channel wi distributn. Showtime’s Queer as Folk drama, the first to portray the liv of gay men and women, while set Ptsburgh, was produced Toronto and proved a primetime wner for Canada’s Showse channel. Danks see DTLA, while overlappg wh Queer as Folk pictg a 30somethg world, gog further by portrayg gay iends for whom life did not turn out as origally envisaged.

What’s more, DTLA is more multicultural than Queer as Folk and has gay and straight people livg and playg together and alg wh the same issu. “As the LGBT muny mov to the mastream, many of the issu that if fac are more mastream, ” Danks sisted as OUTtv creasgly walks a fe le between a gay dience embracg the mastream, and straight TV viewers lookg to a gay work for alternative programmg. For the first time ever, viewers will watch “Drag Race” on VH1 durg primetime on Friday nights stead of Mondays on Logo, the largt exclively gay work on TV.

But the hub of gay TV is much more than “Drag Race, ” wh programmg enpassg documentari, feature films, web seri and other realy-based ntent. ”The prospect of “Drag Race” on primetime Friday night TV is certaly excg for the anchise, but also prents challeng for queer spac, like bars and nightclubs, who have built bs mols around the Steven McEne, the manager of two popular gay bars Brooklyn, New York, the makg over of “Drag Race” to a primetime VH1 show on Friday nights prents a set of challeng to his bs.

LOGO NETWORK UNVEILS 'BIG GAY SKETCH SHOW'

”This ncern isn’t exclive to lol queer bs owners, as former “Drag Race” nttants are already ntendg wh the tensn between the show’s balloong populary and the sire to prerve what feels prec to the LGBTQ Del R, Courtney Act and Adore Delano at the "RuPl's Drag Race" at a viewg party for the season six Miller via Getty Imag“It’s one of those nfg thgs that we see onle and our gay bars around the world that as the gay muny be more mastream, the need for exclively gay spac, be they televisn works or brick and mortar gay bars, be seemgly ls necsary, ” season six falist Courtney Act told HuffPost. Not to mentn, Logo was also home to a semal seri about the liv of black gay men, “Noah’s Arc, ” which premiered 2005, a time when diverse queer stori were rarely why, spe all of this programmg, do the LGBTQ muny 2017 tend to primarily associate Logo wh whens, abs, bchery and drag when all of the other stori are wh reach? ’”While realy-based programmg on Logo is not whout mer ― whom among wasn’t cur about a gay versn of “The Bachelor”?

THE FOTTEN GAY CABLE NETWORK THAT CHANGED LGBTQ HISTORY

“All too often so many of the diverse queer stori that Logo and other LGBTQ media outlets put out there fly unr the radar bee ’s not somethg that whe, cis gay men often share over social [media]. It’s time that we as a muny m to sharg, engagg wh and prrizg the elevatn of diverse, pellg stori that are reprentative of more than jt a whe, cis gay ial.

R.I.P., GAY TV: A NOT-SO-SAD REALY

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Gay-lbian work Logo is movg to the work news bs, planng to televise a half-hour weekly newsst produced by CBS News. He didn’t le out further news programmg based on how thgs new show will foc on gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr issu cludg the 2008 electn, HIV/AIDs and entertament, sports and science news. Image my surprise, then, to read the Huffgton Post yterday that Logo is planng to program the gay away wh a new slate of shows schled for release later this year.

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Acrdg to a prs release announcg the shift, Logo feels that gay people have swum so far to the mastream over the past few years that they no longer sire entertament based solely on their sexual orientatn. Ben Harvey, a blogger and podster at HuffPo, explas what this new ”gay-ish“ lp will look like:.

LOGO FOR A GAY PORN WEBSE

… Instead, the work has opted to green-light only female-iendly, gayish knock-offs of the realy shows Toddlers & Tiaras and Mob Wiv, wh show tl like En Wood’s World and Wiseguys. In his piece, Harvey manag to simultaneoly say that women “didn’t tune to see their gay bt iends makg a fool of themselv on [The A-List], ” (hurtg ratgs; though, to be fair, many gays didn’t like the show eher) and that “realy-show leads are bt left to the tried-and-tted bchy straight woman. ” Acrdg to Harvey, flamboyant gay men don’t do well as the lead realy show ntexts bee they lose their “unrdog” assistant/bt-iend/hairstylist appeal to female viewers.

Meanwhile, we should be thankful that Logo is “takg [gays] out of the spotlight” bee leav all the realy show embarrassment for flamboyant women.

To put Harvey’s posn simply, Logo’s old mol has failed bee women (and some gays) don’t like watchg dramatic gay men lead rol, and that’s fe bee ladi are better at beg ridiculo like that anyway. Logo Network Unveils 'Big Gay Sketch Show' A new edy program — The Big Gay Sketch Show — buts Tuday night on the gay-themed ble work Logo.

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A new edy program — The Big Gay Sketch Show — buts Tuday night on the gay-themed ble work Logo.

As you'd expect om a brash edienne like O' Donnell, "Big Gay Sketch" do not soft-pedal s central theme. (Soundbe of TV show, "The Big Gay Sketch Show") Unintified Woman #1: Do you wish you had a gay iend like the grownups you see on TV, but you're not que old enough yet?

That's bee "Big Gay Sketch" pok fun at every gay stereotype there is, which is fe when you're on the joke. But "Big Gay Sketch" has too much fun mockg s target dience to bother wh how the other half liv. If anythg, "Big Gay Sketch" unrsr the importance of ntext for edy, a timely lson this post-Im era.

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I also hope "Big Gay Sketch" prompts viewers who have never sampled Logo to give a chance.

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25, 1982, rints of Woodstock, New York, turned on their TVs to fd gay porn airg on their lol public accs statn.

The program, technilly a review of gay pornography lled Men & Films, clud a clip of two naked men kissg bed. The ntroversy soon attracted natnal attentn: Playboy and NPR vered the town’s cri to censor Men & Films, and the Village Voice asked, “Do nstutnally guaranteed eedom of exprsn extend to public accs TV shows pictg nsentg gay mal gettg on wh, pardon the exprsn, equally nsentg u? On the show, which first aired on Manhattan Cable’s racy leased accs Channel J, Maletta terviewed gay porn stars and reviewed slightly eded X-rated clips om newly released vios of gay pornography.

To support his programs, he lnched the Gay Cable Network, one of the first productn pani dited to creatg LGBTQ televisn seri. GCN shows clud Be Our Gut, a satire of 1950s game shows hosted by drag queen Sybil Bncheon; Candied Camera, a queer variety and sketch show siar to Saturday Night Live; In the Dungeon, an rmatnal seri about New York’s leather and BDSM scene; Sixth Floor Harrison, one of the first scripted gay soap operas on TV; and Gay USA, a news show that offered LGBTQ polil mentary, on-lotn verage of LGBTQ events, and terviews wh LGBTQ artists, activists, and public tellectuals.