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Contents:
- JOSH THOMAS ON 'HOW TO BE GAY'
- THE TV SHOW THAT'S MAYBE 'TOO GAY' FOR ATRALIA—BUT PERFECT FOR AMERI
- COMEDIAN JOSH THOMAS DISCS HOMOPHOBIA THE GAY MUNY
- JOSH GAD: ‘I DON’T THK WE DID JTICE TO WHAT A GAY CHARACTER A DISNEY FILM SHOULD BE’
- LGH YOUR FEARS AWAY WH 7 OF THE FUNNIT GAY COMEDIANS EVER
- WHY JOSH THOMAS IS PHG FOR MORE GAY SEX ON TV
JOSH THOMAS ON 'HOW TO BE GAY'
<i>Please Like Me</i> has drawn parisons to <i>Girls</i> and <i>Louie</i>, and s h take on gay characters may be exactly what U.S. televisn needs. * gay australian comedian josh *
The Atralian edian Josh Thomas was at the olst gay bar New York, batg how much to say about a breakup. ’ ” 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. “The superpower I had wh ‘Please Like Me’ is that the gay person was based on me, ” Thomas told me.
” He joked, “It’s, like, ‘Well, you’re gay, so that’ll be noble. “I was, like, ‘Why are GLAAD better thori on homosexualy than I am? He relled rmg Freeform executiv, “I am a top-tier homosexual.
THE TV SHOW THAT'S MAYBE 'TOO GAY' FOR ATRALIA—BUT PERFECT FOR AMERI
* gay australian comedian josh *
They’re not more gay than me. DID YOU KNOW: In gay slang a feme top is lled a "bloe".
Also extremely gay. 2009: have to make k for gay weddgs. Beloved Atralian edian and wrer, Josh Thomas is turng his hand to podsts wh new dible seri 'How to be Gay' on the words he typed to google as a teenager, 's an unflchg exploratn of sexualy and the queer experience.
He plays Nicholas, a gay 25-year-old Atralian who sudnly fds himself the guardian of two Amerin half-sisters when his father, who liv wh them the Uned Stat, di of ncer. The humour is broar, the lours more vibrant, the high school trop a ltle heavy-hand – but by the send episo the pace settl and the character quirks and meanrg dialogue Thomas imbued Please Like Me wh are allowed to take Thomas: ‘If they don’t want to see gay people kissg then I don’t want them watchg my show. ”As wh season four of Please Like Me, season one of Everythg’s Gonna Be Okay starts wh a gay make-out scene, somethg he says has given his “poor mum” e for ncern.
COMEDIAN JOSH THOMAS DISCS HOMOPHOBIA THE GAY MUNY
’ I said, ‘If they don’t want to see gay people kissg then I don’t want them watchg my show.
JOSH GAD: ‘I DON’T THK WE DID JTICE TO WHAT A GAY CHARACTER A DISNEY FILM SHOULD BE’
I don’t want to hang out wh homophobic people and I don’t want my dience to be homophobic, so I’m happy to put [those scen] there. They hired me bee I’m gay.
LGH YOUR FEARS AWAY WH 7 OF THE FUNNIT GAY COMEDIANS EVER
Its creator and star, the edian Josh Thomas, drew om his own life to shape the four-season show, cludg his experienc g out as gay and alg wh his mother’s attempted, 32, is now back wh a new show, “Everythg’s Gonna Be Okay, ” which he also wrote and stars . D., how Amerin TV sets differ om on Atralian on and why he now wouldn’t st a straight man a gay are eded excerpts om the nversatn.
I’m gay, and my mom took 100 Panadol and half a bottle of Baileys: That’s te. I thk ’s kd of about stg straight men to play gay men?
I don’t know if I would hire a straight guy to play a gay guy anymore. I want the gay reprentatn on the screen to be really good. If you make a show wh a gay at the center, and ’s not good and not a succs, people are ls likely to make shows wh a gay at the is like workg wh A.
WHY JOSH THOMAS IS PHG FOR MORE GAY SEX ON TV
Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love.
There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia.