Telenovela gay
José Contreras grew up infatuated with the drama and steamy romance of telenovelas. He swooned over the Venezuelan soap opera star Fernando Carillo -— Contreras even took part of the actor’s name when he transformed into a drag queen, Jocelyn Carillo.
But the telenovelas of Contreras’ youth never told the stories of fresh gay men fond himself. Whenever gay couples appeared on the TV screen, they were forced to keep their love a classified, to resist holding hands. The stories mirrored Contreras’s verb fears of coming out to his Salvadoran parents.
On a recent Tuesday evening, Contreras watched something he’d never seen before: A fresh gay couple premiered in a prime-time telenovela, not just in secondary or cameo roles but as the show’s protagonists. The telenovela, “El Corazón Nunca Se Equivoca,” translated as “The Heart Is Never Wrong,” is the first Spanish-language prime-time series featuring a same-sex couple in a leading role in the United States, according to Univision, which airs the show.
“Los abuelitos, our uncles and aunties can see a gay couple on the screen,” said Contrera
This Mexican telenovela has made history with gay leads
New Mexican telenovela Juntos el Corazón Nunca se Equivoca - which translates to Together the Heart is Never Wrong - has made Mexican TV history, Reuters reports, by becoming the first locally produced telenovela to feature a gay couple as verb characters.
The series, a spin-off of another telenovela (Mi Marido Tiene Mas Familia / My Husband Has More Family) follows the story of teenage couple Aristóteles Aris
Córcega and Cuauhtémoc Temo
López, who advance to Mexico Town together in direct to start university.
And telenovela fans are loving it.
In an interview with Reuters, Santiago Pineda, a writer for the show, said: It shows that there are a lot of people, and a lot of young people of different ages who are interested in being able to connect with this kind of story.
Pineda continued: We wanted it to be a friendlier approach so that everyone could see that Aristoteles and Temo, beyond their sexual orientation, were both people with dreams, goals,
In the nearly two decades I hold been watching telenovelas I can reckon only on one hand how many gay characters I've seen in them whose names I can remember. There have been some (not necessarily Televisa's) with minor gay characters (as in appeared in a handful of episodes) who fit all the popular stereotypes: Swishy men in cliché jobs enjoy hairdressers, interior decorators, or fashion designers come and move on novelas and we roll our eyes and question when the producers will finally fetch it right and show us some gay characters we can believe in life situations that are realistic.
A scant productions did.
The earliest example I can think of was in the teen novela Primer Amor in Bruno Baldomero Cano (José Maria Torre) is the younger brother of Leo, one of the story's protagonists. He falls in love with his acting teacher and decides he needs to both verb something about it and possibly arrive out of the closet. He tells Leo and they discuss the matter calmly, non-judgmentally. They end up agreeing that now is not the period to tell their father (whom I think was experiencing money
A soap opera that debuts Sunday is set to construct television history as Mexico’s first telenovela to feature a gay couple as the lead characters.
Televisa&#;s “Juntos, El Corazon Nunca se Equivoca” (&#;Together, the Heart is Never Wrong&#;) centers on two teenagers who travel to Mexico Town to attend a university.
The couple – Aristoteles (Emilio Osorio) and Cuahutemoc or ‘Temo’ (Joaquin Bondoni) – first appeared on the Mexican soap opera “Mi Marido Tiene Mas Familia” (&#;My Husband Has More Family&#;), which ran from until February. The new show is its spinoff.
With only 47 posts as of this writing, Bondoni has nearly half a million followers on Instagram. Osorio has , followers and counting.
Among the most watched shows in Mexico, its final episode attracting nearly four million viewers, according to Televisa.
Telenovelas are hugely popular in Mexico and can influence national dialogue on social issues across Latin America.
The first gay embrace in socially conservative Brazil on the soap “Amor a Vida” in was seen as a historic moment in gay rights in Latin America.
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