I don't speak english, sorry if i make a mistake, but today I want to write about something that makes me really angry. I need to vent a little.
I am referring to the censorship that Bospa, the ship between Bosco Villa de Cortéz and Pedro Pablo Roble, has had to go through.
Let's start at the beginning. The mexican telenovela "El amor no tiene receta" (Love has no recipe) was advertised as an inclusive soup opera that sought to show different types of couples including LGBT+ couples: a trans woman x cis man couple, and a suggested gay couple.
From the beginning they always gave us clues that Pepa and Bosco would be that gay couple. The writers of the story, who are also gay, although they did not openly say that the characters were from the community, almost always confirmed it on Twitter (X).
One of them always interacted with the fandom, gave us likes and even added romantic songs to the Bospa playlist made by the fandom. All of us fans, mostly queer people, were very excited for this couple that showed great potential.
But what happened? There was a point in the story when there were only few scenes of them, the writer deleted everything related to the couple from his account and the playlist, and he began to write suspicious tweets implying that they were censoring his work.
As time went by, we realized that apparently the bosses simply wanted to get rid of the couple, now they were just characters who made a cameos here and there with an apparent romance that is lived in silence. All of their important scenes together and also Pepas' coming out was censored. He couldn't even say the word gay
It is well known that Televisa, producer house of this novel, is very conservative, as is the producer Juan Osorio, who even though, he had included a gay couple in a previous novel in the past, this time he just gave this to us.
One of my hypothesis is that last time, he only did it because his son was one of the members of that couple and obviously he had to make him famous.
But well, it seems disastrous to me that in 2024 there is a setback in the representation of queer couples in Latin american soap operas.
It makes me sad that two gay writers couldn't openly show the couple they created with so much love, because they worked in a homophobic company.
And the most important thing about the matter, is the message it conveys to the LGBT community that love indeed "have a recipe" and does not include gays or trans people, because, not even the couple with a trans girl ended well.
At the end, 4 straight couples were endgame and the only two LGBT couples were not.
The message that the show sought to give was not conveyed well and only implied that gays should not show their love.
It's really stupid, because there are two scenes with an old homophobic/ transphobic man who made comments like: "I don't understand why you have to be rubbing it in the face of everyone that you two are together" (he said it to the trans x cis couple), they obviously defended themselves. The scenes were obviously meant to give a message against discrimination, but it was of no use because the reality shown is different. Even that man got his happy ending with a woman.
Likewise, there is a scene where a character talks about how the best romances are the ones that are not shown to anyone and are not presumed, all while one of the gay characters is present and makes a sad face.
Another scene, a straight couple (older woman and younger man) says something about being able to "live their love in public", A CIS STRAIGHT COUPLE, WHILE THE GAYS IN THE SHOW CAN'T DO THAT. That felt like a bad joke, a mockery, a hit.
In other words, all couples can be shown as long as they are not LGBT, wow what a message.
At the end of the story, Bospa ended up to interpretation, if you think they are friends or a couple is up to you. That was really bad, because it was not planned that way. It was confirmed by one of the authors that they are a couple at the end but that stills dont make them 100% canon because it was not shown on our tv.
It's sad to know that there is an initial version of what the tv show could have been before it was censored and a bunch of deleted Bosco and Pepa scenes. I consider that it is not only a lack of respect for us as an audience but also for each queer person who worked on this production.
As i mentioned before, the last years, there has been other gay couples produced by Televisa, like Aristemo, Juliantina, Artiego, Robertana, etc. These couples were a big step for mexican television even thought they also had to deal with censorship at their time. One of the last examples is Artiego, where their kiss at the end was deleted.
In our case, our ship was just erased, but we know, we know…
The worse thing is the gaslighting their trying to apply on us, trying to make us think the couple was never planned.
A lot of people say: queerbaiting, but it's more complex than that. These queer authors were promised a gay couple in the show they were writing and then the people in charge were like: "nah, there's no time, we are just going to delete everything and people are not going to notice". It's also very obvious how the writters were trying to queercode the characters to at least give us hints that they're in love. We even had an RCP scene because a kiss was not allowed.
So no, these gay writers were not queerbaiting us but the big people in the company took advantage of the queer audience that the ship attracted.
Bosco and Pedro Pablo did not deserve to be a gay couple in a soap opera produced by these people.
Now, what we are doing is asking them on Twitter if they can at least give us the deleted scenes of our ship. It's all there, we need that to give their story a closure. Also we're trying to get a second season or an spin off, but that's more difficult.
I know that maybe we are not going to get anything by posting this here but at least i'm getting all out of my system.
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