Rick and Steve airs Tuesday July 10 on LOGO

Director Q. Allan Brocka stopped by a few months ago to share his thoughts about LA and tell us where to go and what to do.

This week, Allan’s new series “Rick & Steve – The Happiest Gay Couple in all the World” premieres on the LOGO cable channel.

Allan filled us in about the original short film that started it all:

“Rick and Steve the Happiest Gay Couple in All the World� was the first thing I made when I came to LA. Its actually kind of based in the Seattle scene but I just stuck some Palm Trees in there. It was a short film and a homework assignment. It was all made out of lego and shot in stop motion animation. The assignment was to make a film about relationships, so I made a film about a gay couple and a lesbian couple who hate each other but decide to have a baby together. It hit the film festival circuit and made it into the festival of animation. The best thing I ever did was–just on a whim–I put “Episode One� in the title, not even thinking of making more, just to make it feel like a TV show. Because of that, everyone asked when other episodes would be coming out. I made more short films until lego sued me to stop. And so the concept of the show I kept and tried to sell as a regular TV show and then LOGO came along and they got behind it almost immediately. I got some amazing cast that I only ever dreamed of working with: Peter Paige, Wilson Cruz, Alan Cumming, Margaret Cho are all doing voices in it. It premieres in June on LOGO as a half hour TV show.

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