While some of us are hungry for a real authentic scripted series about the LGBT community and we're impatiently waiting for Patrik Ian Polk's The Skinny to finally come out, Deadline is reporting that Lee Daniels (Precious, Shadowboxer) and W. Merritt Johnson (Temple Grandin) are working on a new LGBT series for Showtime (aka the other gay network - Bravo being the first).
The show that Johnson and Daniels will be working on will shed light on a part of the LGBT subculture that is not talked about enough. The series will be set in New York City and centers on the disenfranchised multicultural transgender youth of the legendary Ball scene. Films that shed light on said culture was the 1990 documentary (and what I like to call the gay bible) Paris Is Burning.
Some say the roots of the New York ball house culture can be traced to the 1930s,when the first underground drag balls were held in and around New York City by white men in gay bars, while others argue that it evolved out of the Harlem ballroom scene in the 1960s.
So is the plot going to take place in modern day NYC, or are they going to go in a more Mad Men direction in regards to talking about gay culture? Either way this sounds like a great idea to be brought to television and I am glad that a network like Showtime has the cojones to bring something like this to television. So with this series as well as the in development Russell T. Davies (Queer As Folk) gay series in the works, This may be the most exciting time for LGBT programming on the small screen since the days of Queer As Folk and The L Word and with so many strides that are being made in the LGBT community this couldn't have happened at a better time.
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