Dan Levy Gets a GLAAD Award for Promoting LGBTQ Acceptance via Schitt’s Creek
There’s a lot we know about Alexis Rose’s pre-Schitt’s Creek life: she’s dated all three Hanson brothers, been on a blind date with Leo, and had a tryst with Prince Harry. While snippets of her colourful love life are sprinkled throughout the series, there’s no shortage of clues to David Rose’s romantic past either. Openly pansexual, we know he had a crush on Jared Leto, suffered through an arduous breakup with Anderson Cooper, and “burned a bridge” with Nate Berkus in Ibiza. (And of course there was that ill-advised almost-throuple with Stevie and Jake.) All this to say, it’s not often we see a queer character in pop culture offered the same freedom and nonchalance when it comes to discussing romantic or sexual paramours as straight characters are. But that was Dan Levy’s intention from the start: to create a place where everyone could love out loud. “When I found myself in a position to tell stories on a global scale, I seized the opportunity to make a television show that might, ...
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