Televisa launched Mexico’s first gay soap opera with the premiere of “Together, the Heart is Never Wrong” June 23.
The show follows a gay couple — Aristoteles, played by Emilio Osorio, and Cuahutemoc or ‘Temo,’ played by Joaquin Bondoni — in their first year in college in Mexico City.
The two young men appeared in another popular telenovela “My Husband Has More Family,” which ran from 2017 until February this year, reported Reuters. Nearly 4 million viewers tuned into the final episode.
Fans were ecstatic about the news of the show.
Sofia Estefania Palacios Osorio, 21, tweeted that it was a “dream come true.”
“There is so much machismo, discrimination, and taboos around LGBT couples,” she wrote. “It’s going to help more people see that it’s something normal, that love is love.”
Some gays criticized the unrealistic portrayal of gay men by sanitizing their lives.
Conservatives accused television stations of “normalizing” LGBT life in a pro-gay agenda.
“Together, the Heart is Never Wrong” (“Juntos, El Corazon Nunca se Equivoca”) airs on Univision, the largest Spanish-language station in the United States. Check local listings.
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