“We live in a world and a time now where a lot more of us are accepting, but a lot more of us still need to be accepting," Chambers told Entertainment Weekly. There’s a long way to go for Netflix when it comes to stories of queer love, but projects like Single All the Way represent a step in the right direction. Some employees even staged a walkout in protest of Netflix’s co-CEO Ted Sarandos defending the special, saying that while Netflix’s policy is never to produce content that is “designed to incite hate or violence,” the company works “hard to support creative freedom-even though this means there will always be content on Netflix some people believe is harmful.” The comedian sprinkled his set with transphobic and homophobic comments, leading to widespread outcry over the company continuing to give Chappelle a platform to spout his offensive opinions.
It’s a long-overdue step for Netflix in championing queer stories, given the PR disaster it created for itself in October with Dave Chappelle’s comedy special The Closer. “We’re going to be sending a family who loves their gay son unconditionally into that many places, and that’s a very special and daunting and exciting, nerve-racking task.”
“Neither of them was coming out, nobody dislikes them because they are gay, and they go home for Christmas without to tiptoe around anything,” Urie previously explained to Entertainment Weekly. “It’s a long-overdue step for Netflix in championing queer stories, given the PR disaster it created for itself in October with Dave Chappelle’s comedy special The Closer.” It avoids the common cliches that most stories about same-sex relationships fall into, which was a conscious decision by Tony Award-winning director Michael Mayer ( Spring Awakening), who wanted to tell a queer love story where no one had any trepidation about addressing their sexuality, nor stereotyping its queer characters. “I don’t know why, but I like it.”īut the best part of Single All the Way is its running theme of love and acceptance, presenting a gay man whose entire family is supportive and actively cheers on his journey to find love. Blanca Rodriguez (Mj Rodriguez) is an HIV-positive trans woman who decides to form her own House, the community's term for a group of dancers, and she quickly finds herself with a new family.
“For some reason, are always obsessed with me,” she purrs. Pose is a series about the Black and Latino LGBTQ ballroom culture of the 1980s and '90s. It also boasts another scene-stealing performance from Jennifer Coolidge, who plays Peter’s glamorous Aunt Sandy-a woman still living in her Broadway heyday who whips the town’s children into shape for her Christmas play.Ĭoolidge plays to her audience with her ditzy, deadpan one-liners. Single All the Way almost reaches the Hallmark-level of silly/overly sweet, but who’s to say that’s a bad thing? It still manages to capture the magic of spending time with loved ones over the holidays, recounting embarrassing stories and even rehearsing made-up dance routines to Britney Spears’ “Santa, Can You Hear Me?” with younger nieces and nephews.