Welcome to the Bravo tvguide.com interview stage.
I'm Dave Quinn and I am proud to be here at day two of bravocon.
What's going on?
Everyone, I am here.
Our next guests are incredible allies of the LGBTQ community.
Please welcome Ariana from Vanderpump rules.
Hello or gay?
Our friend from The Real Housewives
of Salt Lake City and Monica from family karma.
Oh, ladies, are you having a good bravocon so far?
Yes the best.
Yes, it's been incredible.
Look at these fans.
Everything is amazing.
How was last night?
Day one?
Did you go out?
Yes I've been wearing sunglasses all day.
I forgot them right now.
I should have them on.
Yes, I did see you on Instagram Live last night.
It was a little bit wild.
Did you see a wild Instagram live?
I saw wild and through being an ally, just let's hear.
Who were you with?
Tell everybody.
Well, I had kind of an iconic moment
with Vicki gunvalson, tamra, judge Taylor Armstrong,
Jen Shah and Heather Gay.
And who else was in the picture?
I'm forgetting people, you know, Kirschenheiter
and Kirschenheiter.
Yes, it was.
It it was like one of those moments with everybody.
Yeah you were having fun.
What about you, monica?
Did you get to meet a lot of Bravo fans?
Oh, my God.
I think I was full blown Fanning out
because I was just like, oh, my god, that's Heather Dubrow.
Oh, my god, that's Jen Shah. Oh, my God.
That's how I was.
Just like every time I turned my head, I was like, you know,
I remember Gigi from like when she was like on episode
one of shahs of Sunset.
So for me to be able to meet her and interact with her,
it's just it's like a pinch me moment for me.
Yeah I remember Reza when he was hashtag relatable,
and now he's like a King.
But, you know, it's so cool because we
get to meet all these amazing fans,
but like, we're fans ourselves.
Yeah of all of these amazing people
who are on Bravo as well.
So well, I want to know, what does it mean to you
guys to be an LGBTQ ally?
Oh, my gosh.
Well, number one, it means everything.
And I think that it's such a meaningful thing to me.
And I know these ladies as well.
The LGBTQ people in my life are the most important people
to me.
And every time I meet LGBTQ youth,
there's such a disadvantage in our society and it's not fair
and we need more allies.
Yes yes, I love that.
Heather, with the last name like gay.
I mean, you were destined to be an OK man.
I became an ally when I accepted my married name.
I was Heather Gay and my brand is just to be an ally.
But I truly became, I think, an ally like Ariana.
Just saying is when I got divorced and was kind
of outcast from my community and my friends,
I had no place to land, you know,
no one that, like, could understand that I was kind of
in between two worlds.
And it was my gay brothers and sisters
that just, like, embraced me and made me feel safe and gave me
a home and have continued to champion
me and be my greatest friend.
So I'm an ally, but because they love me,
you know, I love I mean, I'm an ally
because they let me love them.
I don't know.
Oh, yeah, I know that your experience
is you know, I have to say that within the Indian community,
it's really important to me to be able to embrace anybody
from the LGBTQ community, because it's something
that we don't want to be taboo.
We don't want it to be hidden behind a curtain.
We really want it to be something
that somebody can celebrate.
And I think for me, having, you know,
Amrit is one of my closest friends.
I've been able to hear his story, hear his journey
and learn more.
And I think that that's the most important part of it, is
learning what they're feeling and learning what they're
going through and asking questions
to be able to get that insight.
Yeah, I mean, you're all from three very different cities,
so I have to know, like, what is it like in the LGBTQ experience
in each of those cities?
Well, obviously, I think that Los Angeles is a very
welcoming community as a whole.
I'm from Florida.
I grew up in a very conservative area,
and I definitely witnessed a lot of hate growing up.
And I think that cities like Los Angeles, like new York,
are places that people can go to really, truly be themselves
and feel safe being themselves.
And I think that it's so important to have communities
like that and to build those communities in those places
like Florida, maybe like in Utah,
and like create more of those places.
I mean, you're in Florida is that Miami is like the Mecca
of the LGBTQ community.
So we have a huge Pride Festival which I was able to be a part
of, which is so much fun.
And just, you know, you'll see gay bars everywhere.
It's just the culture is.
So embracing and so welcoming.
So I'm really proud to be a part of a City
that really embraces that.
And what about salt lake?
What is it like there?
What is it like in Salt Lake city?
Well, for the gay community, I mean,
we actually have a really strong, active, powerful
gay community, which is, I think, a great resource
for so many people, because if you can't see it,
you can't be it.
And it's important to have representation.
And I just think even outside of like I remember loving going
to New York for anonymity, you know,
and I want anyone that feels marginalized to feel
that same safety of anonymity in their own backyard.
And I think being in Salt Lake city, that's what
we're working for, you know?
Well, you know, I think representation is so important
and it's so incredible that you're
representing here as allies.
What positive changes are you most proud of that
you've seen Thanks to bravo?
That's a great question.
I have to say that for me, I feel like I got to learn more.
I got to be a part of my first virtual pride fest
during COVID.
So for me, that was a huge one.
I didn't have anywhere to shoot what I was going to be doing
for the pride fest with Bravo.
So I actually decorated rainbow flags in front
of my entire front yard.
My neighbors were looking at me and everybody was like kind
of cheering like, you go, girl.
So it was like, nice to see even just my inner community embrace
it and, you know, kind of log on to see the virtual pride fest.
So that was incredible.
Oh, this is like a virtual pride fest for me right now.
What about you?
What if positive changes have you seen?
I think that over the years, like the first shows that I
started watching on bravo, like a long, long time ago
were like the Project Runway.
And back when it was, I think, largely a network
that really I think a lot of LGBTQ people
felt represented on the network.
And now I feel like that representation has like
transferred out into the world more
and the community has grown and grown and grown so much
and it's really beautiful to see.
Yeah, Yeah.
I have to jump in and just say that Bravo broke barriers
as a network to be able to do something like this
and put out shows that really just
did not tolerate any discrimination
against this community.
That that for me was everything.
And because now these shows are being broadcasted
in different countries.
So it's kind of spreading the love
and spreading kind of, you know, just these guys
had like really good answers.
I was thinking how it affected me.
And I was thinking I had like four best gay friends
before the show and now I have like 400,000.
That is a good that has definitely transformed
and enriched my life and I feel greatly blessed because of it.
And many of them are here at Bravo cons.
Is this kind of feel like a pride parade to you?
How does it differ from one?
The fans screaming around here.
Well, guys, do you want to play a game?
Yes, I love good game.
I love a game.
Good luck.
It involves these fans.
So let's hand these out one to each of you
if you don't mind passing that forward.
I love a game personally, so in this game
we're going to play pride of Bravo.
Feelgood.
When did Aretha to you a series of true or false questions
if it's a true fact about your fellow Braley Bravo allies.
Just clap your pride flag.
You know how to do that.
The fan.
I know how to do.
We're clapping fans here.
OK, baby work.
First question, first question.
"Real Housewives of New Jersey, true or false?
Did it feature a same sex wedding?
Oh, didn't it true?
Didn't caroline?
Carla Caroline, man.
Yeah son's friend.
Right close brother.
Her brother.
Tell him you got a flash.
All right.
Giving cannot believe I was wrong when I'm leaving this
game, and I'm going to cheat.
All right, what about.
Here's the next $1 million listing?
La Josh Flagg proposed to his former fiancee in a $10 million
house.
He was selling in the bird streets of La in advance,
but I'll still get the crap going.
That's true.
Not true, you guys.
It's false.
Our Josh Lab and our defense team.
Very Josh Flagg, you are very close.
But he proposed in France with the help of a flash mob
because we love a flash mob. Flash mob?
I'm waiting for it like a flash mob.
This does I feel like at any moment
the dancing is going to die.
There will definitely be a conga line.
Yes, there will be a Kathy Hilton conga line in no time.
OK How's this?
"Real Housewives of New Jersey, Sonja Morgan and Alex McCord.
Remember Alex mccord?
Simon and Alex famously feuded at the New
York City pride parade when Sonja is
serving as the grand Marshal.
Wouldn't let Alex's husband Simon talk.
I feel like that's true.
That's true.
I'm coming down.
I know that it's not.
It's so close.
Weren't You wouldn't let Alex talk, wouldn't it?
It was very close, but it actually
happened at the marriage equality of big question.
All right.
Let's end with this one OK.
Brooke Shields was Maid of honor at the Real Housewives
of Miami.
Julia lemon Galvez and Martina Noella polo.
Was wedding was she the Maid of honor?
I don't I don't know of honor.
Give honor being false.
It's true.
Oh I did not.
I know Julia and Martina, and that is not what I remembered.
Talk about an ally.
Well, Arianna, you came out as bisexual on Vanderpump rules.
Tell me what that experience was for you with the fans after.
It it was amazing.
It was something that my friends and my family
knew about me for some time, but it
wasn't something that the world at large knew about me.
And so there were so many years where I would be at the Pride
parade, but kind of, you know, celebrating
my identity like a blue Blazer, low key pride.
And it was like, well, why am I?
Like, I have no reason.
Like, there's no reason.
And I'm and I'm out here being like, be proud of who you are.
And I'm like.
Meanwhile, at the same time, like, hiding a part of myself.
But once that was out there, it was really beautiful.
And everyone has just been so lovely.
Well, I'm so proud of you.
And we are all your allies as well.
Thank you guys so much for tuning in.
We'll see you more at Bravo tvguide.com.