Ist david gay in schitts creek
softdavidrose asked:
ugh a little rant period. a few days ago i finished schitt's creek (and wow why didn't i watch it before?) so as one may do when they have a new found obsession i went into the tag on tumblr but,,, i was so saddened to see so many people not taking david's pansexuality seriously. many just said he's gay (which ultimately is not necessarily an issue) but so many people were saying he's bi and it got me SOOO ANGRY because HE'S NOT!!!! (cont.)
it sucks that bi rep isn’t very common, but pan rep is even LESS common, so maybe stop “taking” characters away from us? i literally never saw a character legitimately id as pan in television, that’s IMPORTANT to me as a pansexual person. of course it is also important for bi people to see themselves represented, but instead of taking away actual canonical pan characters and labelling them as something they’re not, they’re supposed to encourage other canon bisexual characters. (cont.)
i’m not going around taking bi characters and saying “love my pan son” because that would be shDavid Rose
David Rose , played by Daniel Levy, is one of the main characters in Schitt’s Creek (). When his once fabulously wealthy family loses all their money, they are forced to shift to a small town that his father once purchased as a joke because of its humorous name.
At first, it appears that David is small more than an eccentric and spoiled dilettante with no practical skills. He fancies himself a victorious businessman, but his confidence is shaken when he finds out his parents secretly kept his gallery in business by buying art anonymously. Once in Schitts Creek, however, David’s good taste, fashion instinct, and understanding of the value of a registered name eventually make him the primary breadwinner in the family.
Precisely because he is so fashionable and does not fit in with the rest of Schitts Creek’s more grungy sensibilities, people in the town assume that David is gay. We learn beat when David befriends Stevie, the manager of the run-down motel where the family is living, and the two of them develop a friends-with-benefits relationship.
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Next time you view Dan Levy, recognize him.
Thank him for "Schitt's Creek," his super-bingeable comedic riff on a once-affluent family forced to live like fish out of Perrier in the podunk Canadian town the show is named after. And appreciate him, he who created and developed the series, which premiered in on Pop TV (and can also be seen on Netflix), for willfully remaining single only to craft and bring more rib-tickling bons mots for the show's fourth – and most affectionate – season. Recognize him again while you're at it, because the year-old former MTV Canada co-host has somehow found the hour to create yet another queer-themed plan that he tells me is in the works.
But let's not receive ahead of ourselves, for now we have David Rose (Levy), replete with his color-averse apparel and drop-crotch pants, general distaste for people, and his animated and generally disgusted facial contortions worn like memes in the making. Johnny, David's perpetually on-edge father, is played by real-life father and "American Pie" and "Best in Show" performer Eugene Levy, who also serves as the comedy's co-cre
In her new book, Love that Journey for Me: The Queer Revolution of Schitt’s Creek, Emily Garside writes that the eponymous fictional town is the world that the show’s co-creator and co-star Dan Levy wants to reside in. “The idea is simple: What if these characters were able to exist somewhere free from the wider prejudices of the world?” Garside writes. “For queer viewers, it’s a chance to notice their stories told as normal stories, which—we already know—they are, but these queer romantic narratives are so often filtered through the eyes of writers and characters with prejudice, those simply blind to a non-heteronormative relationship. More importantly, queer viewers receive to see a content, relatively carefree version of a gay love story, something rarely seen in cultural portrayals.”
That’s true not only of the homosexual romance between David (played by Levy) and Patrick (Noah Reid) but of desires and relationships that fit less easily into non-heteronormative relationship models.
In this excerpt from the novel, Garside writes about how David’s easygoing speech portraying his pan