After forever gay series

I am sorry to admit that many, if not most, of these LGBTQ characterizations on TV scared and embarrassed me because at the core of my being, I knew I was just like them on some level, and knew if I wanted to be a leading man in show biz, I was going to have to hide my truth of being gay.

That we got Season One made, and aired, and that it developed the following it did was astounding. Kevin tossed out the idea of a 50ish guy who is dating. The 8-episode first season follows them and their friends through a journey of love, loss and moving on.

Still, as Kevin and I headed to the Emmys we agreed we should not have any expectations about winning… and then came the first award and all the others. A man loses his husband and must learn to navigate the world as a single gay man in this moving drama series about love, loss and fresh starts.

Odds are, had we taken this story to the networks, it would not have been made, at least not as it was. A story of love, loss, and fresh starts. Thank God times are different now… but it took me just as many years, as it has the industry, to accept myself, and to be okay with being gay, and being proud enough to open up about it— to tell stories, that not only help heal our hearts, but hopefully inspire people to be accepting of themselves and others.

That we got 8 Emmy nominations was insane. I wondered why this man would be dating… why was he single? The money came from a coalition of friends, family and business associates in a combination of investments and donations. M : Kevin answered that so beautifully.

The groundbreaking series is primed to repeat its historic wins with the recently launched second season, which is currently available on Amazon Prime and via the show’s site.

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It was like a surreal dream. I broached this to Kevin who loved the idea, and we were off and running. But Brian is a fictional creation. We had a series of coffee meetings to kick ideas around. With Kevin Spirtas, Mitchell Anderson, Jamison Stern, Cady Huffman.

As humorous and fun as many of these LGBTQ characters were to watch, the series that I grew up in was not acceptable of homosexuality; something that I knew I was. That we started winning awards at festivals around the world was amazing.

Emmy Award winner Kevin Spirtas chats with The Randy Report podcast about the debut of Season 3 of his award-winning digital drama series, After Forever. Slade and Spirtas are proud of creating a series that not only has such diversity among its cast, but also boasts a crew and creative team that is equally diverse.

After Forever: Created by Kevin Spirtas, Michael Slade. AFTER FOREVER has shown there is an audience anxious to follow and become involved in a deep, honest gay love story… and though we wanted to create the series to give our contemporaries a story they could relate to, it has been particularly gratifying to discover that ours is far from exclusively a gay middle-aged audience.

The first season of digital series After Forever made history when it won more Daytime Emmy Awards than any LGBTQ-themed drama series in history (Daytime or Primetime). For additional information go to: www. The message here is clear that just as gay people have always found ways to identify with, and become involved in, stories about straight people, the reverse can be true if the characters are fully drawn, complex, honest human beings.

The show stars Kevin as “Brian” and Mitchell Anderson (Doogie Howser, Party of Five) as “Jason,” a “ish” gay couple living in New York City who appear to have it all — until “Jason’s” untimely death from cancer forces. After a man loses his husband, he must learn to navigate the forever as a single gay man in his50s.

Check out how to watch the show here. After Forever is the story of Brian and Jason, a ish New York City gay couple, who have it all until they don't. G: How do you think After Forever is changing the game for representation of gay men?

Our fan mail shows that our viewers are gay, straight, transgender, male, female, racially diverse, young, middle-aged and elderly. But by the time Kevin and I stood on the stage accepting the award for Outstanding Digital Drama Series… looking out at thousands of people cheering for us… and for this gay love story, I thought, we really have come somewhere as a society.

And knowing I was writing him for Kevin to play, I consciously put pieces of him into Brian, as well. Having lost my partner to cancer a few years before, I realized I was ready to artistically explore the grieving process. Check out how to watch the. But digital after have allowed honest stories to be told about all sorts of groups who have been invisible or nearly invisible on traditional platforms.

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