Tanya Saracho: Vida's Steamy Queer Sex Scenes

LGBTQ&A

Jeffrey Masters

Society & Culture

4.7 • 703 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Vida shows how complicated the sex lives of queer people — of all people, really — can be. Tanya Saracho, the TV show's creator, wants audiences to feel like they're there in person, watching along as the intimate moments most TV shows cut away from.

"Those sex scenes are shot very specifically," she says. "The uncomfortable parts, we want to stay and linger in them." Tanya Saracho talks about workshopping these scenes, showing a different side of nonbinary people onscreen, and what to expect in the upcoming season of Vida on this week's episode.

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0:00.0	My all Matinex, mostly queer writers' room, mostly female, you really see us.
0:11.0	And you don't know what that sort of recognition can do, especially in a time when we are much malign and vilified.
0:18.0	I watched Tanya Saracho make this speech last month at the GLAD Awards.
0:22.8	She reminded the audience just how rare it is to see such a brown, queer show on TV
0:28.0	and why that is so important with everything going on in our country today.
0:33.3	Tanya is the executive producer and creator of the TV show Vita.
0:37.2	The show tackles gender, sexuality, gentrification, among many other things,
0:42.6	all told through the story of two Latinx sisters who return home to Boyle Heights in Los Angeles.
0:48.7	Tanya and I talk about the assumptions we make about Latinx people.
0:52.6	We also talk about the assumptions we make about queer people.
0:55.8	Tanya has been called a tourist in different queer spaces.
0:59.3	And then we talk about how everything in her life came full circle
1:02.3	when she worked with her high school boyfriend, Raul Castillo, on the show, Looking.
1:08.2	From Luminary Media, I'm Jeffrey Masters, and this is LGBTQ and A.
1:15.5	I'm excited to talk to you because I haven't seen a show in a while that made me say, I can't believe this exists.
1:22.2	Really?
1:23.2	Ooh, like which part?
1:24.6	Well, I mean that as a compliment, too.
1:25.7	Yeah, yeah, no.
1:26.2	Your face is beaming, so it feels like. Oh, okay, thank you. I mean that as a compliment, too. Yeah, yeah. I feel like your face is beaming so it feels like.
1:28.3	Oh, okay, thank you.
1:29.3	I mean that because it is so queer, it is so Latinx, and it has such a female gaze,
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