''So Gay TV'' is a Canadian television

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, which aired on PrideVision in the early 2000s."Reality bites: An oral history of The Lofters". ''

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'', August 7, 2013. Hosted in its first season by

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and in its second season by Jason Ruta, the program originally aired in 2001 as an

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television series connected to '' U8TV: The Lofters'', and was picked up by PrideVision after that network's launch."Wanted: a loftier reality TV". ''

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'', October 30, 2001. The series ended in 2002 after the cancellation of ''The Lofters'', although it continued to air in repeats on PrideVision. ''So Gay TV'' mixed panel discussions and interviews with documentary and feature reports on

lesbian A lesbian is a Homosexuality, homosexual woman.Zimmerman, p. 453. The word is also used for women in relation to their sexual identity or sexual behavior, regardless of sexual orientation, or as an adjective to characterize or associate n ...

gay ''Gay'' is a term that primarily refers to a homosexual person or the trait of being homosexual. The term originally meant 'carefree', 'cheerful', or 'bright and showy'. While scant usage referring to male homosexuality dates to the late 1 ...

bisexual Bisexuality is a romantic or sexual attraction or behavior toward both males and females, or to more than one gender. It may also be defined to include romantic or sexual attraction to people regardless of their sex or gender identity, whi ...

and

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issues and life in Canada. One of the show's most widely publicized segments was an interview with

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, one of the stars of '' Queer as Folk'', about his experience as a

heterosexual Heterosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction or sexual behavior between people of the opposite sex or gender. As a sexual orientation, heterosexuality is "an enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, and/or sexual attractions" to ...

actor playing a gay character. The show was nominated for Best Talk Series at the 2002 Gemini Awards."Made in Canada leads Gemini pack". ''

'', September 25, 2002.

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