Quick Facts
Biography
Jason Leaver is a Canadian web series creator, known as the creator of the LGBT web series Out with Dad.
Career
Out with Dad
The series was initially released in 2010 and is filmed in and around Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is about a teenage lesbian named Rose and the process of her coming out to her single father. It has won various web series awards and has screened at numerous festivals, including the Los Angeles Web Series Festival. As of December 2016, the series has over 40,000 subscribers and has been viewed over 24 million times on YouTube.
It currently streams on several online platforms, including Blip, Dailymotion and YouTube. The series shines a spotlight on the challenges of people in the LGBT community, specifically lesbians facing homophobia. In 2011, the series was given an official endorsement by PFLAG Canada.
Since the conclusion of its third season, the series has been funded solely by fans through the online funding platform Patreon.