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Gay Dads, Powerful Princesses

By Chris Azzopardi Photos: Netflix Snow White? I don’t know her. These days, the concoctions. … Princess Bea gets her playful delicate, demure princesses from the earliest streak from Sir Benedict — he has a similar gleam days of Disney films are history, replaced by a in his eye and an equal love of adventure.” more socially progressive kind of young lady royalty that puts leadership and skills first, frilly “I just think that once we went from book to dresses a distant second. In fact, in “Princess the show, we were trying to expand the world Power,” a new Netflix kids show from executive in every way you can imagine,” Guthrie said on producers Drew Barrymore and “Today” co- Zoom about the decision to make Bea’s parents anchor Savannah Guthrie, the show’s theme a same-sex couple. song says it all — “no matter what we wear, we’re gonna be right there.”

The show, she says, is designed for any kid looking to find versions of themselves, or who they want Based on Guthrie’s bestselling book series, to be, on screen. “You don’t have to see a carbon “Princesses Wear Pants,” co-written by parent copy of yourself,” she said. “You just have to see educator and psychologist Allison Oppenheim, an aspect that you can connect with and that the show is full of girl-power positivity for every tells you you’re accepted. I think that’s really in kind of kid seeking aspirational get-’er-done the DNA of the books and now the shows, and determination and the power of friend-family. it’s so meaningful to us to be able to do that.”

Those messages, along with a valuable one on self-expression, are a part of the queer-inclusive, pro-feminist fabric of the 14-episode series, A show where powerful princesses can change which follows princesses of four major fruit the world and break down gender norms fits kingdoms: Kira Kiwi, Beatrice “Bea” Blueberry, right within the motivating force behind some of Rita Raspberry and Penelope “Penny” Pineapple. Barrymore’s most popular work, like “Charlie’s They all love and accept each other as they do Angels” and “Boys on the Side.” It’s something their part to change the world by helping their the actress, who is openly bisexual, is keenly aware of. fellow “fruitizens.”

And then, of course, there are the gay dads. “I did grow up on things and characters and Voicing Beatrice’s fathers are actor Andrew humans and themes that made me believe as Rannells (King Barton) and “Queer Eye” style a young girl that I didn’t have to become a boy, expert Tan France (Sir Benedict). According to or as a young woman trying to make films like their character descriptions, “While King Barton ‘Charlie’s Angels,’ you don’t have to try to be a isn’t as much of a daredevil as his husband and man or take men down,” she said. “For me, it’s daughter, he’s a brilliant pilot and feels as much like, ‘How do we love everyone and how do we at home in a biplane as he does in the kitchen, make everybody feel?’” where he’s a master of bold and surprising

For Barrymore, she connected to Guthrie’s books they’re seen, even if it’s just one aspect of just like she has some of her past characters, themselves that they recognize. Even in the including her streetwise fighter character Dylan silliest way.”

Sanders in “Charlie’s Angels.”

“I love a platform like Netflix,” Barrymore added.

“There can be things in the creative world and “I love the world you created in the books. There the human realm that just make you feel like are worlds for everyone that include everyone you can do it,” she said. “These books seem like and trying to speak and reach everyone. [Those that to me. This show, I hope, is that for people. are] the things I want to be a part of.”

Because that is exactly what happened to me in my life through other characters or roles I got to Certainly, when it comes to queer-inclusive kids play or stories that I was told. It is who I am today content on TV, there are more options than because of it.” ever — options that better reflect people who live in our real world. Those include two other Guthrie, who’s been the co-anchor of the NBC animated Netflix series: “Ridley Scott,” featuring morning news show “Today” since 2012, felt Rannells as one of Ridley’s dads, and “She-Ra and inspired to become the journalist she is today the Princess of Power,” which also casts queer after watching Katie Couric as a kid, so she gets it. characters as heroes.

“I didn’t have perfect hair, I didn’t look a certain way,” she says. “I didn’t know that I could make Elsewhere, the animated comedy-horror show it into this business the way I was. When I saw “The Owl House” on Disney+ stars a bisexual how Katie did it, I knew that I could. There was a character named Luz Noceda and features a twoplace for me. So even in that little narrow sense, dad household and a non-binary character, while I can’t make a comparison, but I do understand Hulu’s “Steven Universe” has been celebrated the power of example and the power of seeing as one of the queerest kids shows on TV. yourself and believing that if that person can “I feel like there’s always more work to be done,” be there, if they can be accepted, then maybe I Guthrie said regarding LGBTQ+ representation in could be accepted as well.” kids programming. “You can never rest on your laurels. But I think you also have to acknowledge With recent rhetoric from anti-queer progress and be grateful for that and keep it conservatives aimed at LGBTQ+ kids, from “Don’t going.”

Say Gay” laws to a troubling movement to ban queer-centric books from American libraries, the show — even if it is just a kids show about Chris Azzopardi is the Editorial Director of Pride princesses — conveys a strong, necessary Source Media Group and Q Syndicate, the national LGBTQ+ wire service. He has interviewed message to those who need to hear it. a multitude of superstars, including Cher, Meryl Streep, Mariah Carey and Beyoncé. His work has “It’s simple: You belong. You’re here too. We see also appeared in The New York Times, Vanity you,” Guthrie said. “I hope that it’s empowering,” Fair, GQ and Billboard. Reach him via Twitter @ she continued. “I hope that it feels embracing. chrisazzopardi.

I hope that anybody who watches it feels like

Love and Marriage

By Jamie Booth Photo: My Pet Hippo Productions, Dekkoo

Jason T. Gaffney is lucky to have the best At its core, Marriage of Inconvenience is a partners in life and work. His life partner is story of love and how it can come from the his husband, Matt. His work partner is his most unexpected of places. We spoke with real-life father, Ed Gaffney. the series’ writer, director, and star, Jason T. Gaffney, to learn more.

“Dad and I started writing together years ago, back with 2012’s The Perfect Wedding, Could Marriage of Inconvenience have and discovered it was a good fit,” Jason been told twenty years ago?

T. explains. In addition to The Perfect The world is definitely more Wedding, they have collaborated on the accepting of a show like Marriage of 2019 romantic comedy Analysis Paralysis, Inconvenience nowadays, for sure! It really and 2020’s Out of Body. is wonderful to see how far we’ve come. I am optimistic that the younger generation, Their latest project, Marriage of and the older generation who fought for Inconvenience, is a series that follows two the rights we have today, are more than strangers who enter a witness protection ready for a rom-com series like Marriage of program and must pretend to be happily Inconvenience. We’ve earned the right for married in order to hide their identities from our happily ever after! the dangerous people who want them dead.

What would you say is the funniest moment It stars Jason T. Gaffney as Owen, a in the series? slacker with anger issues, and David Allen This might be the hardest question I’ve ever Singletary as Franklin, an obnoxiously rigid been asked in an interview! It’s impossible English professor who prides himself on his for me to pick just one moment. I’m a fan attention to detail. About the only thing the of physical comedy, so the slapstick scene two men have in common is that they’re where Owen and Franklin attempt to sleep gay, and people want to kill them. When in the same bed for the first time always forced to live together in a very small house makes me laugh. as Mr. and Mr. Fulton, they quickly find they share something else in common: they can’t stand each other.

You play Owen, a slob with anger problems. addition to that, we are both each other’s Was it a challenge to make his character biggest supporters, and we do what we loveable? can to help each other realize our dreams.

One of my favorite parts about Marriage We are, after all, a team. But perfection is of Inconvenience is that we flashback to boring, and I’m a huge fan of things that are Owen and Franklin’s past to before they are perfectly imperfect. brought into witness protection. Learning where Owen’s anger comes from and the What can Marriage of Inconvenience teach fact that he is actively trying to manage it us about love and marriage? certainly helps make him more relatable. It’s It’s important to be yourself in a relationship. also really funny to watch someone with a Also, embrace love and laughter. We all short fuse attempt to control his anger when need it in our lives! everything is exploding all around him.

Marriage of Inconvenience premieres on Then there’s Franklin. He, too, is difficult to Dekkoo on April 6, 2023. like with that stick up his butt.

Franklin has had a difficult life. He was For more information, visit Dekkoo.com. not handed anything on a silver spoon.

He worked hard to get his education and become an English professor. I think that a lot of marginalized people, whether LGBTQ, BIPOC, or disabled, can relate to the idea that Franklin has to be better than everyone else to be viewed as an equal to those with systemic privilege. As the series progresses, Franklin learns to let his guard down a little, and spending time with Owen helps him to enjoy life a bit more.

You and David Allen Singletary, the actor who plays Franklin, have great chemistry.

I’ve been best friends with David for about two decades! I’ve wanted to work with him for the longest time, and when I started writing Marriage of Inconvenience, I quickly realized this was the perfect vehicle for him.

In real life, you’re married to Matt, an executive producer on Marriage of Inconvenience Yes! I’ve been with Matt for over ten years and married to him for just shy of seven years.

Is Matt a Franklin or an Owen?

If I had to pick the character that Matt is most like, it is Franklin, but way less intense!

I’m definitely more of the Owen in the relationship, although I have a bit of each character in me. Really, I think there’s a little bit of Owen and Franklin in all of us.

Is it always perfect bliss to live and work with your husband?

Absolutely not! We do a really great job of communicating with each other and finding common ground when there is conflict. In

A Rare and Affecting Depiction of Queer Parents

By George Elkind In the opening minutes of M. Night Shyamalan’s new thriller “Knock at the Cabin,” a little girl named Wen (played by Kristen Cui) is approached by Leonard, a hulking stranger (Dave Bautista), who offers to help her catch grasshoppers while asking about her life at home and school. Before we meet them, she announces that she has two parents over at the cabin nearby: Daddy Eric and Daddy Andrew — information Leonard, a second-grade teacher, receives with a studied, careful politeness.

Her school counselor tells her it’s a good thing, she goes on, but the counselor’s overly enthusiastic tone conveys the opposite impression: that the performance of open-mindedness isn’t sincere.

film does. While a movie like “Beginners,” released in 2010, may show a queer parent (and in this case a widower) coming out late in life, and something like 1996’s “The Birdcage” shows familial relations structured by absenteeism, these films pit queerness — in the classic sense of running against the norm — as destabilizing traditional structures of family life.

Far more common is the figure of the queer homewrecker, a character who, in honoring their own needs, threatens or upends longstanding family ties. (In this, “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” “Transamerica” and “Transparent” all stand out, suggesting that trans characters Minutes later, we meet Wen’s parents: Andrew (Ben remain disproportionately burdened with these Aldridge), a wary, adamant human rights attorney, associations). Alternatively, there’s the affirmative and Eric (Jonathan Groff), a more temperate but structure of something like Lisa Cholodenko’s quite protective dad who spends much of the film 2010 film “The Kids Are All Right,” which expels an concussed. It’s not the legitimacy of their queer-led interloper who threatens its key family’s stability, family that’s under threat here – it’s the continued thus affirming its queer family structure with a bill of existence of the family itself. ultimately good health.

Within minutes of its opening, the family’s For “Knock,” though, the queerness of the family, woodland cabin is invaded by Leonard and his three the presence of gay parents, is not the issue — but companions, who explain that it’s important they the response to those around them is. Frictions of find their way inside. After forcing their way through queer life are acknowledged in both present-tense doors and windows, then subduing and tying the moments and in flashback, bolstering Andrew’s couple up, Leonard offers an aggrieved apology as already justified skepticism of Leonard’s homehis colleagues tidy up the space, explaining that they invading troupe. didn’t know what kind of family they would meet but that they needed to talk to them nonetheless.

In this and other ways, “Knock” accounts for social The motive for the invasion isn’t hate, they insist, frictions accompanying queer life without letting but a revelation: a shared vision that told them, in them take hold of the film’s center. But when they quasi-religious terms, that an apocalypse would are dealt with, it’s often with an unexpected sense come if the family refuses to sacrifice one of their of grace. For Shyamalan, a director not known own by the following morning. for subtlety, small notes of truth ring out through shorthand gestures, especially in flashbacks.

This collision, of one group bound by possible fanaticism with a family whose ties are cemented In one scene of the couple first meeting Wen by deep love, echoes contemporary politics without abroad, for instance, the couple claim to be lending credence to those skeptical of queer in-laws instead of partners; in another, they parents. The cohesion of the family, joined by stillendure a strained meeting with visiting parents. scrutinized processes of same-sex marriage and While these kinds of depictions — of white, cis adoption, never comes under question, running and gay, financially stable couples in otherwise counter to most depictions of queer couples who traditional family structures — could be considered choose to raise children, especially young ones. assimilationist in their rhetoric, “Knock” makes clear that they’re not only rare but welcome, particularly In fact, depictions of such families in U.S. media, when not presented as some ideal, preferred queer both on TV and in film, still seem quite rare. While path. Instead, the film’s family life is normalized watching Shyamalan’s thriller — which has been in spite of what they face. In offering a depiction argued by some to be a conservative work for its that’s far from tokenistic while hardly being radical, sympathetic treatment of doomsaying extremists “Knock” provides a testament to what we lack — — I still struggled to think of films that treated and proof this should happen more often queer family structures as matter-of-factly as this

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Yeah, totally hooked up with my boyfriend’s dad (before we got together, of course). So, I’m sitting on this huge bombshell, and I don’t know if I should keep quiet or tell my boyfriend because not saying anything feels like I’m betraying him. Help me, what do I do now?

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Talk about having the past come to haunt you! The unfortunate and quite sad thing is that this bombshell could have potentially devastating consequences for you – and all you did was hook up with someone unknowing that he was under the radar. Here’s the thing: You say you are very much in love, and you are taking next and important steps to deepen your connection. On one hand, you could stick your head in the sand and pretend this was all in the past.

A little white lie like this could save your relationship and potentially your boyfriend’s family a lot of conflict. On the other hand, it will be difficult for you to enter this next phase in your relationship, especially since you are taking those big committal steps. Maybe you can feel out the vibe of the family a little bit more – who knows, maybe the whole family is super sexually open-minded and in on the secret! But for now, keep this under wraps under the guise of ‘we all have a past,’ and even his father deserves the discretion he used with you. Now, if he starts approaching you again for sex, that would be your cue to come clean to your boyfriend.

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