A brand new Pleasure pageant celebrating LGBTQ illustration in leisure is coming to Los Angeles, simply in time for the twenty fifth anniversary of Queer as People.
Solid members of the Showtime collection will reunite for the primary ever Pleasure Dwell! Hollywood, working June 11-29, additionally that includes a Golden Ladies fortieth birthday and a tribute to the late Norman Lear, amongst different occasions at venues round Hollywood.
“It’s extra necessary than ever that we have fun the fabulous gentle of packages like Queer as People, to not point out Pleasure LIVE! Hollywood’s different choices,” mentioned Scott Lowell, who performed Ted Schmidt within the 2000-’05 collection. “Particularly throughout Pleasure Month in LA at a pageant that not solely acknowledges the previous however reveals us the trail ahead.”
Lowell will reunite with co-stars Hal Sparks, Robert Gant, Michelle Clunie, Thea Gill, Peter Paige and Sharon Gless, in addition to creators Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman for the pageant.
The fortieth anniversary salute to The Golden Ladies will function a panel with collection writers Rick Copp, Jim Vallely, Stan Zimmerman, James Berg and script supervisor Isabel Omero.
Kicking off with a particular introduction from spouse Lyn, the opening night time tribute to Norman Lear will have fun his contributions to LGBTQ tv with One Day at a Time‘s Isabella Gomez, All within the Household visitor star Ok Callan, and writers/producers Gail Guardian (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman), Jay Moriarty (The Jeffersons), Bob Illes (Sanford and Son and Fernwood 2 Nite), Mike Royce (One Day at a Time), Dan Ewen (Clear Slate) and Greg Cope White (Netflix’s upcoming collection Boots).
Different pageant highlights embody the Los Angeles premieres of Unicorns and A Huge Homosexual Bushy Hit! The place the Bears Are: The Documentary, a Saturday Evening Fever screening on the W Lodge Hollywood with a rooftop disco dance social gathering and screenings of Loosen up… It’s Simply Intercourse, The World In keeping with Allee Willis, The Huge Johnson, Issues Like This, The Grotto and extra.
Pageant attendees may take pleasure in an LGBTQ creator roundtable, stay performances at Amoeba Music and a tour of the Hollywood Stroll of Fame.
