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Gaycation

Gaycation

Description: Openly gay actress Ellen Page heads out, with best friend Ian Daniel, on a journey to explore various LGBTQ cultures in locations around the world. Each episode finds Page and Daniel in a different country to see how different cultures treat the LGBTQ community. Along the way, they meet people who share their stories of struggle and triumph as they work to be accepted by their communities. Page and Daniel's itinerary include stops in Jamaica -- notorious for its homophobia -- where they explore how the gay community is seen through the island nation's famed Rastafari philosophy, and Brazil, where they experience one of the most dangerous confrontations of their lives in the country with the world's highest LGBTQ murder rate. On a lighter note, while in Japan they head to a party at the world's smallest gay bar.
Genre: Comedy, Documentary
Year Released: 2016
Number of seasons: 2
Number of episodes: 10
First episode air date: March 2, 2016
Network: Viceland
Executive Producers: Ellen Page, Nomi Ernst Leidner, MORE
Nominations: Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Award for Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program, MORE
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