Out actress Ellen Page says her LGBT
travel show isn't typical travel show fare.
Gaycation, which stars Page and
best friend Ian Daniel, premiered Monday on Viceland.
(Related: Ellen
Page's Gaycation
premieres first on YouTube.)
In an interview with Slate, Page
explains that a large part of the show is talking to “those who
don't like us.”
“A huge part of the show is talking
to those who don’t like us, or are fine with us but don’t want us
to get married, or want us to be dead, or think we have a disorder –
different levels of hatred and fear and what have you,” Page
said. “It’s a huge part of the show because we want to give
a face to that, to what’s potentially inflicting the violence, to
what’s preventing equality. A lot of those people are just a
symptom of an issue. There is a core issue, and it manifests in this.
Why is that? Really that’s what we’re trying to ask. We try to go
in with an open heart and an open mind to figure it out. Because,
yes, there are often times where you just want to be, like, why do
you give a shit? Why do you give a shit if that guy wants to kiss
that guy? Why do you give a shit if that person was born in the wrong
body and is a trans woman? What is your problem?”
“We're not on a vacation,” added
Daniel. “We want to go and see what's going on, and then there are
parts where, on some level, we do act as tourists. Like, what is the
tourist experience, what is the reality of that?”