Gaycation Episode 1: Japan (2016)
On Feb. 29, Viceland launches as a cable channel focused on food, fashion, sex, music, sports, and culture. One of the shows on its slate is Gaycation, premiering on March 2, which follows Ellen Page and her best friend, Ian Daniel, as they search for LGBTQ community in Japan, Brazil, Jamaica, and the United States. Episode 1: Ellen and Ian are in Japan, on a journey which includes getting friendshipmarried at a Buddhist temple, working at a rentafriend agency and joining the party in the world s smallest gay bar. It might sound like a standard queer travel show, but the first episode, in which they visit Japan, is surprisingly original and even profound. (Viceland has made it available a week before the premiere on its YouTube channel. ) Page might be a movie star, but she approaches the people she meets on her travels with humility and curiosity, and her friendship with Daniel is downright aspirational in its closeness. While the show begins on familiar groundwith visits to Tokyos gay bars and intervi
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