Kit Williamson has penned a personal essay for The Advocate chronicling the adventures of shooting season three of his series, EastSiders, while encountering homophobia in the heartland.
Here's an excerpt:
Idaho’s also an overwhelmingly red state: 59 percent of the population voted for Trump and less than 28 percent voted for Clinton.
Most of the people we encountered in Boise were friendly, but we suspect we lost a couple of locations because the show is about a gay couple. Everything was set to move forward at two of the private campgrounds we had scouted … until we disclosed the name of the project. Then communication suddenly ceased with one and the other wrote back that it was no longer allowing filming.
It’s hard to believe these kinds of things still happen today, but they do. My home state of Mississippi still has a disgusting “religious freedom” law, House Bill 1523, that effectively allows for anti-LGBT discrimination.
We made a decision to start referring to the project by an alternate title, Go West, and when asked about the plot we would say it was about “two friends” on a road trip across the country. We felt a little gross about it, but we were on a tight schedule and couldn’t afford to have any other locations fall through.
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