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''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". '' The Grid'', August 7, 2013. Hosted in its first season by Mathieu Chantelois 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
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, gay,
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and
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issues and life in Canada. One of the show's most widely publicized segments was an interview with Hal Sparks, one of the stars of '' Queer as Folk'', about his experience as a heterosexual actor playing a gay character. The show was nominated for Best Talk Series at the 2002 Gemini Awards."Made in Canada leads Gemini pack". ''
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'', September 25, 2002.


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* OutTV (Canadian TV channel) original programming 2001 Canadian television series debuts 2002 Canadian television series endings Canadian LGBTQ-related web series 2000s Canadian television talk shows 2000s Canadian LGBTQ-related television series 2001 web series debuts 2002 web series endings {{Canada-documentary-tv-prog-stub