Sewers of Paris: Like I Was the Star (Ep 397 - Kevin/Reality TV)
Added 2022-08-18 16:00:07 +0000 UTCMy guest this week was present for some of the earliest days of what we now recognize as reality TV β he helped produce Gay Riviera, a 2001 Bravo series about queer dating. Kevin Haddad never expected to find himself behind the scenes of a series that helped developed the rules of reality television β a few months earlier, he was a waiter at a family restaurant in Connecticut, and before he knew it he was staying out all night at New Yorkβs hottest nightclubs and possibly getting picked up by a mobster.
Weβll have that conversation in a minute. First β hey, are you interested in the history of gay characters on sitcoms, from Bewitched to The Golden Girls to Modern Family? And how, hidden in those characters, is the real-life story of queer liberation? Well Iβve got a book coming out on exactly that topic next year! Iβll be revealing the title and cover later this month in my newsletter β head over to gaysitcoms.com to subscribe to the newsletter and be the first to get all the details.
