{ "id": "ep0sv8vc86", "slug": "gaycation", "title": "Gaycation", "updated": "2026-11-01", "topic_path": [ { "id": "culture", "label": "Arts and culture", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture" }, { "id": "culture.performance", "label": "Screen and stage", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen", "label": "Film and television", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series", "label": "Series and fictional screen worlds", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_unscripted", "label": "Unscripted, reality, and web-native series", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series.series_unscripted" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_documentary_factual", "label": "Documentary, docudrama, and lifestyle series", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series.series_documentary_factual" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_documentary_factual.travel_expedition_documentary_series", "label": "Travel and expedition documentary series", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series.series_documentary_factual.travel_expedition_documentary_series" } ], "geo": [ { "id": "geo.us.t2001.culture.performance.screen.series.series_documentary_factual", "label": "United States · 2001 to 2020: Documentary, docudrama, and lifestyle series", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2001.culture.performance.screen.series.series_documentary_factual", "path": [ { "id": "geo.us", "label": "United States", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us" }, { "id": "geo.us.t2001", "label": "United States · 2001 to 2020", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2001" }, { "id": "geo.us.t2001.culture", "label": "Arts and culture", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2001.culture" }, { "id": "geo.us.t2001.culture.performance", "label": "Screen and stage", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2001.culture.performance" }, { "id": "geo.us.t2001.culture.performance.screen", "label": "Film and television", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2001.culture.performance.screen" }, { "id": "geo.us.t2001.culture.performance.screen.series", "label": "Series and fictional screen worlds", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2001.culture.performance.screen.series" }, { "id": "geo.us.t2001.culture.performance.screen.series.series_unscripted", "label": "Unscripted, reality, and web-native series", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2001.culture.performance.screen.series.series_unscripted" }, { "id": "geo.us.t2001.culture.performance.screen.series.series_documentary_factual", "label": "Documentary, docudrama, and lifestyle series", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2001.culture.performance.screen.series.series_documentary_factual" } ] } ], "excerpt": "Gaycation is a Viceland documentary travel series (2016–2017) hosted by Elliot Page, then Ellen Page, and Ian Daniel, exploring LGBTQ cultures in Japan, Brazil, Jamaica, the US, and Ukraine; twice Emmy-nominated.", "snippet": "Gaycation is a Viceland documentary travel series (2016–2017) hosted by Elliot Page, then Ellen Page, and Ian Daniel, exploring LGBTQ cultures in Japan, Brazil, Jamaica, the US, and Ukraine; twice Emmy-nominated.", "node": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_documentary_factual.travel_expedition_documentary_series", "markdown": "# Gaycation\n\n**Gaycation** is an American documentary travel series hosted by actor [Elliot Page](https://www.edgepedia.org/elliot-page), then credited as Ellen Page, and journalist and filmmaker Ian Daniel, who travel to different countries to explore LGBTQ cultures and the lives of queer people living there. It premiered on Viceland, Vice's cable television network, on March 2, 2016 at 10:00 pm, ran for two seasons with associated specials, and received Primetime Emmy nominations for Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program in both 2016 and 2017.[1](https://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/gaycation-viceland-launches-new-series-with-first-trailer/) • [2](https://www.televisionacademy.com/shows/gaycation) • [3](https://thetvdb.com/series/gaycation)\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Format | Documentary travel series in which the two hosts explore LGBTQ culture country by country[4](https://laist.com/shows/the-frame/ellen-page-explores-lgbtq-culture-around-the-world-on-viceland-channels-gaycation) |\n| Hosts | Elliot Page (credited as Ellen Page) and Ian Daniel, longtime friends, both serving as hosts and executive producers[2](https://www.televisionacademy.com/shows/gaycation) |\n| Premiere | Wednesday, March 2, 2016 at 10:00 pm on Viceland[1](https://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/gaycation-viceland-launches-new-series-with-first-trailer/) |\n| Run | Two seasons (2016 and September 2016) plus specials; status listed as ended, with the most recent airing April 30, 2017[3](https://thetvdb.com/series/gaycation) |\n| Season 1 destinations | Japan, Brazil, Jamaica, and the United States[1](https://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/gaycation-viceland-launches-new-series-with-first-trailer/) |\n| Awards | Primetime Emmy nominations for Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program (2016, 2017); Imagen Award for Best Informational Program (2017); GLAAD Media Award nominations (2017, 2018)[2](https://www.televisionacademy.com/shows/gaycation) • [5](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5430288/awards) |\n| Notable special | *Gaycation Presents: Orlando*, covering the Pulse nightclub massacre and featuring stories from those affected, most of them LGBTQ Latinx people and their families[6](https://assets.glaad.org/m/46f9ebeec4abfa2a/original/GLAAD-2016-17-Where-We-Are-on-TV.pdf) |\n\n## Spoilers\n\n### Plot\n\nPage, the Oscar-nominated star of *Juno* who came out publicly in 2014, and Daniel, a producer, wanted the kind of show [Anthony Bourdain](https://www.edgepedia.org/anthony-bourdain) made, but about LGBTQ communities.[18](https://macleans.ca/culture/television/ellen-page-on-gaycation-and-the-privilege-of-travel/) The title is deliberately sunny; Page chose it so viewers would come in open and relaxed, then run into the realities.[18](https://macleans.ca/culture/television/ellen-page-on-gaycation-and-the-privilege-of-travel/) One reviewer called the result \"less vacation and more interrogation.\"[11](https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2016/03/review-ellen-pages-gaycation/)\n\n#### Season 1\n\nThe first episode opens in Tokyo in 2016, with bar stops in the city's LGBT district and a portrait of queer life in Japan that treats the country as neither exotic nor backward, showing both the progress and the pressure of it.[19](https://dailyfreepress.com/03/04/02/112866/gaycation-lgbt-viceland-tv-review/) Then comes the moment the whole series is remembered for.\n\n**A young Japanese gay man, sitting with Page and Daniel, comes out to his mother on camera, with no rehearsal and no warning.** The scene was entirely spontaneous, arising while they were in Japan rather than planned before the trip, Page later told NPR.[20](https://www.npr.org/2016/03/20/471194934/gaycation-ellen-page-explores-lgbt-lives-globally-on-travel-show) The cameras keep rolling as a mother hears, for the first time and in front of strangers, the thing her son has carried. Nothing explodes; that is what makes it devastating. The conversation is quiet, halting, and painfully polite, and the crew has the good instinct not to cut away. Page said this became the most emotional moment of the show's early episodes.[11](https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2016/03/review-ellen-pages-gaycation/)\n\nFrom Japan the season moves to Brazil, where the paradox is stark: liberal LGBT rights laws on the books alongside the highest rates of violence against queer people in the world.[21](https://brignews.com/2016/04/02/vicelands-gaycation-review/) Page and Daniel sit down with a former police officer turned hit man who is proud of the number of gay people he has murdered, a man who admits to killing gay and lesbian people simply because they \"crossed his path.\"[21](https://brignews.com/2016/04/02/vicelands-gaycation-review/) Page later said that talking to him he felt fear physically, in his body, and that his thoughts went to the community members still at risk rather than to himself.[20](https://www.npr.org/2016/03/20/471194934/gaycation-ellen-page-explores-lgbt-lives-globally-on-travel-show) Daniel noted that some interviewees genuinely risked their safety by speaking to the show at all.[20](https://www.npr.org/2016/03/20/471194934/gaycation-ellen-page-explores-lgbt-lives-globally-on-travel-show)\n\nThe season also reaches Jamaica, where Page witnesses the country's first pride, a moment he describes as one of the most inspiring of his life.[22](https://www.vice.com/en/article/ellen-page-and-ian-daniel-talks-about-documenting-homophobia-and-hope-around-the-world-gaycation/) The joy of that parade sits next to Daniel's encounter with homeless LGBTQ youth living under tarps after their shack was burned down, kids with scars and bullets still lodged in their bodies.[22](https://www.vice.com/en/article/ellen-page-and-ian-daniel-talks-about-documenting-homophobia-and-hope-around-the-world-gaycation/)\n\nThe finale brings the show home to the United States, airing days after the Supreme Court's marriage equality decision.[23](https://www.avclub.com/gaycation-heads-home-for-some-introspection-in-season-o-1798187118) It juxtaposes that victory with the ongoing murder of queer trans women of color and the thousands of homeless gay and trans young people in Los Angeles, whom Page meets at the LA LGBT Center.[23](https://www.avclub.com/gaycation-heads-home-for-some-introspection-in-season-o-1798187118) Page sits down with Miss Major, the trans activist of the [Stonewall riots](https://www.edgepedia.org/stonewall-riots), and then, in the scene that made headlines, confronts Senator Ted Cruz at the Iowa State Fair in a conversation filmed in August 2015, pressing him on anti-gay violence and discrimination while he deflects.[24](https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/2016/3/24/ellen-page-meets-ted-cruz-and-miss-major-gaycation-finale) Daniel, meanwhile, travels through the American Deep South to meet queer communities fighting daily battles there.[25](https://www.vice.com/en/article/ian-daniel-gaycation-season-finale-as-told-to/) Page attributed the American backlash she encountered to reaction against the marriage ruling itself.[22](https://www.vice.com/en/article/ellen-page-and-ian-daniel-talks-about-documenting-homophobia-and-hope-around-the-world-gaycation/)\n\n#### Season 2\n\nThe second season, launched on September 7, 2016, takes the format to Ukraine, India, France, and the American Deep South, continuing the pattern of pairing personal stories with the legal and political facts on the ground.[26](http://www.thefutoncritic.com/showatch/gaycation/) The last episode airs September 28, 2016, and no third season follows.[27](https://watch.rdd.media/shows/gaycation/)\n\n### Characters\n\n**Elliot Page** (host, then credited as Ellen Page) is the emotional center of the show: curious, quick to tears, willing to put himself in the room with people who would kill people like him. He had come out at a [Human Rights Campaign](https://www.edgepedia.org/human-rights-campaign) event in 2014 and framed both that speech and the [Ted Cruz](https://www.edgepedia.org/ted-cruz) confrontation as political acts that preceded the series.[18](https://macleans.ca/culture/television/ellen-page-on-gaycation-and-the-privilege-of-travel/) He said he felt grateful to be part of a show offering representation for the LGBTQ community.[20](https://www.npr.org/2016/03/20/471194934/gaycation-ellen-page-explores-lgbt-lives-globally-on-travel-show)\n\n**Ian Daniel** (host and co-creator) is the steadier half of the pairing, a producer and longtime friend of Page's; the two had known each other eight years by the end of the show's run.[22](https://www.vice.com/en/article/ellen-page-and-ian-daniel-talks-about-documenting-homophobia-and-hope-around-the-world-gaycation/) He is candid about his own privilege as a gay white man, and points out that even in America and Japan there are more bars for gay men than for lesbians.[18](https://macleans.ca/culture/television/ellen-page-on-gaycation-and-the-privilege-of-travel/)\n\nThe interviewees are the show's third star: a Japanese mother hearing her son's coming out, a Brazilian hit man, Jamaican pride marchers, homeless youth in Los Angeles, and Miss Major, each given the space to speak for themselves.[24](https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/2016/3/24/ellen-page-meets-ted-cruz-and-miss-major-gaycation-finale)\n\n### Interpretations and controversies\n\nCritics debated the show's limits. [The A.V. Club](https://www.edgepedia.org/the-a-v-club) noted that Page and Daniel are white Americans whose reach is limited by their backgrounds and languages, but praised the series for largely avoiding white saviorism and for refusing to label whole countries as gay-friendly or homophobic, instead coupling data with personal narratives.[23](https://www.avclub.com/gaycation-heads-home-for-some-introspection-in-season-o-1798187118) The Ted Cruz confrontation became the show's most shared clip and a talking point in election-year politics. The Brazil hit man interview also drew attention for how far the show was willing to go, sitting face to face with an unrepentant killer.[21](https://brignews.com/2016/04/02/vicelands-gaycation-review/)\n\n## Origin and development\n\nThe series grew out of the launch of Viceland, the documentary-focused channel Vice created with A&E Networks that debuted on February 29, 2016, with filmmaker [Spike Jonze](https://www.edgepedia.org/spike-jonze) as network co-president alongside Eddy Moretti.[7](https://www.nylon.com/articles/ellen-page-ian-daniel-gaycation-interview) • [8](https://time.com/4236963/a-vice-tv-network-shows-the-limits-of-rebelliousness/) While staying with Jonze in New York, Page, a fan of Anthony Bourdain-style travel shows, was invited to pitch ideas for the new network. She proposed a travel series focused on LGBTQ communities and cultures around the world, and brought the concept to Jonze two days later.[7](https://www.nylon.com/articles/ellen-page-ian-daniel-gaycation-interview)\n\nFor Page, who had publicly come out as gay in 2014 at the Human Rights Campaign's \"Time to Thrive\" conference in Las Vegas, the show combined her performance career with her activism.[9](https://theotherpress.ca/taking-a-gaycation/) She described feeling \"absolutely grateful and humbled\" about hosting it.[7](https://www.nylon.com/articles/ellen-page-ian-daniel-gaycation-interview) Daniel, her best friend and a journalist and filmmaker, is also gay; the two had been friends for years.[10](https://afterellen.com/ellen-page-ian-daniel-school-us-global-queer-culture-gaycation/)\n\n## Format and production\n\nEach episode takes the two hosts to a country or region, where they meet queer residents, activists, and opponents of LGBTQ rights, and hear personal stories of struggle and survival. Viceland's own description said the hosts \"discover the multiplicity of LGBTQ experiences, meeting amazing people and hearing their deeply moving stories of struggle and triumph.\"[1](https://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/gaycation-viceland-launches-new-series-with-first-trailer/) A reviewer for the trade watch site reality blurred described the result as \"less vacation and more interrogation,\" noting that on another network the format might have highlighted gay-friendly hotels and clubs instead.[11](https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2016/03/review-ellen-pages-gaycation/)\n\nProduction was deliberately flexible. Daniel explained that Viceland producers presented a list of countries and treatments, after which he and Page chose the stories they considered important, then let events unfold on location. Some interviews fell through when people decided appearing on camera was too risky in countries where it is difficult to be openly LGBT.[7](https://www.nylon.com/articles/ellen-page-ian-daniel-gaycation-interview) Page said the goal was to reflect the whole picture of each country, including how experiences vary with socioeconomic situation, and to cover the spectrum of the LGBTQ community rather than only one part of it.[7](https://www.nylon.com/articles/ellen-page-ian-daniel-gaycation-interview)\n\nThe first season visited Japan, Brazil, Jamaica, and the United States.[1](https://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/gaycation-viceland-launches-new-series-with-first-trailer/) The Japan premiere episode examined a complicated social landscape: same-sex marriage was not legal, households headed by same-sex couples were ineligible for legal protections afforded to opposite-sex couples, and discrimination laws had not changed. Guests included Chiga Ogawa, who started the first women-only party in Japan, a monk who performs same-sex ceremonies, and two gay lawyers who litigate anti-discrimination cases.[12](https://www.nylon.com/articles/ellen-page-gaycation-episode-1-tokyo) The Jamaica episode included a visit to the country's first-ever [Pride parade](https://www.edgepedia.org/pride-parade) and an encounter with a Rastafarian elder whose warm manner gave way to anti-gay views, which Page discussed as a symptom of a broader homophobic society.[10](https://afterellen.com/ellen-page-ian-daniel-school-us-global-queer-culture-gaycation/) • [7](https://www.nylon.com/articles/ellen-page-ian-daniel-gaycation-interview)\n\n## The Ted Cruz confrontation\n\nWhile filming the \"America\" episode in August 2015, Page debated US Senator Ted Cruz about his anti-gay views at the Iowa State Fair; video of the exchange circulated widely the following summer.[9](https://theotherpress.ca/taking-a-gaycation/) • [7](https://www.nylon.com/articles/ellen-page-ian-daniel-gaycation-interview) The confrontation appeared in the series, and Daniel described the experience of hearing someone say, in effect, that he had killed people like them and would do so again: \"It's scary, in that it's just hard to hear.\"[9](https://theotherpress.ca/taking-a-gaycation/)\n\n## Specials and later episodes\n\nOver the summer of 2016 the series aired *Gaycation Presents: Orlando*, a special covering the massacre at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando and featuring stories from those affected by the shooting, most of whom were LGBTQ Latinx people and their families.[6](https://assets.glaad.org/m/46f9ebeec4abfa2a/original/GLAAD-2016-17-Where-We-Are-on-TV.pdf) Season 2 followed in September 2016, and Daniel also traveled solo for an episode exploring France's LGBTQ community.[3](https://thetvdb.com/series/gaycation) • [13](https://www.tvinsider.com/show/gaycation/) A later episode took the hosts to Ukraine, where the show sought to establish empathy for Ukrainian LGBTQ people by exposing and criticizing Ukrainian homophobia.[14](https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/bitstreams/0fb23d06-1d3a-4952-8526-dba2e57d6ec9/download)\n\n## Reception and criticism\n\nThe series earned two consecutive Primetime Emmy nominations for Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program, in 2016 and 2017, with Page, Daniel, Jonze, Moretti, Shane Smith, and other producers credited.[2](https://www.televisionacademy.com/shows/gaycation) It won the 2017 Imagen Award for Best Informational Program and was nominated for the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Reality Program in both 2017 and 2018.[5](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5430288/awards) On IMDb it holds a rating of 8.0 out of 10 from about 1,600 users.[15](https://www.justwatch.com/us/tv-show/gaycation)\n\nCritical reviews were mixed. A Time review of Viceland's launch found that *Gaycation* \"feels stretched to its limit,\" with interesting cultural detail from Japan's gay bars but too much \"stagily solemn\" narration.[8](https://time.com/4236963/a-vice-tv-network-shows-the-limits-of-rebelliousness/) Academic critics examined the show's perspective as well. A 2019 essay by Shinsuke Eguchi, a communication scholar, analyzed the series' themes of queer essentialism, the power of coming out, and cosmopolitanism, arguing that its transnational promotion of LGBTQ pride operated through whiteness.[16](https://openurl.ebsco.com/contentitem/gcd%3A137837087?id=ebsco%3Agcd%3A137837087&sid=ebsco%3Aplink%3Acrawler) A 2017 essay in *Feminist Media Studies* by Jasmine Rault argued that the inaugural season performed US liberal queer whiteness as an affective experience of feeling for others, producing a \"white noise\" that flattened the specific experiences of queer and trans people of color.[17](https://openurl.ebsco.com/contentitem/doi%3A10.1080/14680777.2017.1326557?id=ebsco%3Adoi%3A10.1080%2F14680777.2017.1326557&sid=ebsco%3Aplink%3Acrawler) Ukrainian activists produced a frame-by-frame \"honest trailer\" commentary on the Ukraine episode, criticizing it as an objectifying, exotifying gaze and \"risk tourism\" that privileged Western homonormative forms of queerness and imposed homonationalist expectations on Ukraine; the same analysis noted that, unlike earlier Western travel writing about post-Soviet queer life, the episode emphasized Ukrainian queers' sameness with Western queers rather than their difference.[14](https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/bitstreams/0fb23d06-1d3a-4952-8526-dba2e57d6ec9/download)\n\nThe series is listed as ended, with its most recent airing on April 30, 2017.[3](https://thetvdb.com/series/gaycation)\n\n## References\n\n1. [Gaycation: VICELAND Launches New Series with First Trailer, TV Series Finale](https://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/gaycation-viceland-launches-new-series-with-first-trailer/)\n2. [Gaycation, Awards and Nominations, Television Academy](https://www.televisionacademy.com/shows/gaycation)\n3. [Gaycation, TheTVDB.com](https://thetvdb.com/series/gaycation)\n4. [Ellen Page explores LGBTQ culture around the world on Viceland channel's 'Gaycation', LAist/The Frame](https://laist.com/shows/the-frame/ellen-page-explores-lgbtq-culture-around-the-world-on-viceland-channels-gaycation)\n5. [Gaycation (2016) Awards, IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5430288/awards)\n6. [GLAAD, Where We Are on TV Report 2016–17](https://assets.glaad.org/m/46f9ebeec4abfa2a/original/GLAAD-2016-17-Where-We-Are-on-TV.pdf)\n7. [Ellen Page On Her New Show 'Gaycation', Nylon](https://www.nylon.com/articles/ellen-page-ian-daniel-gaycation-interview)\n8. [Review: A Vice TV Network Shows the Limits of Rebelliousness, Time](https://time.com/4236963/a-vice-tv-network-shows-the-limits-of-rebelliousness/)\n9. [Taking a 'Gaycation', The Other Press](https://theotherpress.ca/taking-a-gaycation/)\n10. [Ellen Page and Ian Daniel school us in global queer culture on \"Gaycation\", AfterEllen](https://afterellen.com/ellen-page-ian-daniel-school-us-global-queer-culture-gaycation/)\n11. [Review: Ellen Page's Gaycation, an insightful and emotional trip, reality blurred](https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2016/03/review-ellen-pages-gaycation/)\n12. [Ellen Page Takes Us To Tokyo In 'GAYCATION' Premiere, Nylon](https://www.nylon.com/articles/ellen-page-gaycation-episode-1-tokyo)\n13. [Gaycation, TV Insider](https://www.tvinsider.com/show/gaycation/)\n14. [Ukrainian activists' \"honest trailer\" analysis of the Gaycation Ukraine episode, York University repository](https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/bitstreams/0fb23d06-1d3a-4952-8526-dba2e57d6ec9/download)\n15. [Gaycation streaming information, JustWatch](https://www.justwatch.com/us/tv-show/gaycation)\n16. [Eguchi, Shinsuke. Transnational LGBTQ Pride: Whiteness, Health, and Welling in Viceland's Gaycation. China Media Research, 2019](https://openurl.ebsco.com/contentitem/gcd%3A137837087?id=ebsco%3Agcd%3A137837087&sid=ebsco%3Aplink%3Acrawler)\n17. [Rault, Jasmine. White noise, white affects: filtering the sameness of queer suffering. Feminist Media Studies, 2017](https://openurl.ebsco.com/contentitem/doi%3A10.1080/14680777.2017.1326557?id=ebsco%3Adoi%3A10.1080%2F14680777.2017.1326557&sid=ebsco%3Aplink%3Acrawler)\n18. 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[https://www.avclub.com/gaycation-heads-home-for-some-introspection-in-season-o-1798187118](https://www.avclub.com/gaycation-heads-home-for-some-introspection-in-season-o-1798187118)\n24. [https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/2016/3/24/ellen-page-meets-ted-cruz-and-miss-major-gaycation-finale](https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/2016/3/24/ellen-page-meets-ted-cruz-and-miss-major-gaycation-finale)\n25. [https://www.vice.com/en/article/ian-daniel-gaycation-season-finale-as-told-to/](https://www.vice.com/en/article/ian-daniel-gaycation-season-finale-as-told-to/)\n26. [http://www.thefutoncritic.com/showatch/gaycation/](http://www.thefutoncritic.com/showatch/gaycation/)\n27. 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